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> If you don't want to take that seriously, thank you for your honesty, I will ensure that I never have an account on any service you work on.

That's fine; you already have multiple accounts on various providers that can be trivially massaged by a client into providing proof of life of an email address.

Microsoft, OpenAI, Anthropic, Oracle, Amazon; I tried them all now, and they let you enumerate emails trivially by clicking "signup" and then informing you if you choose an email that is already registered.

> Jesus no.

You haven't really has thought this through as thoroughly as you think you have - email enumeration is still, at the tail end of 2025, possible across all major sites, providers, etc.



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