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[–]venecia 13 insightful - 1 fun13 insightful - 0 fun14 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

Shit, I thought this was a one-off that I only got. I deleted the associated account. Thank god that I never chose to use an email address with my main accounts.

This is an awfully weird coincidence and I wouldn't be surprised if they're sending these out with the intended purpose of ''Hey! Here's an old account! Is it associated with this email address?'' Click ''yes'' and reddit now can see your IP and definitively link it to all other accounts you have. Click ''no'' (which I did, and now regret), and pray that they don't scrape your IP anyway/notice which account you're using when the page opens.

Don't click shit. Wait a week or so to throw them off the trail, and quietly go in, renuke, and delete the account.

[–][deleted] 6 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 0 fun7 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I can't even get into that old account... I deactivated it. Not sure why it's alive again.

[–]EnnuiOz 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I've only ever had the one account and every time i've opened reddit for probably the last month there's been a message about whether I want to link my email account. I just answer no but now I'm wondering if they already know it as I exclusively post from my phone on my own IP (ie, not VPN), and was relatively active on GC.

This is my first post over here and, while unrelated to the topic, I really miss GC. I am older and somewhat struggling to find my groove on this new platform.