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by onion2k 3012 days ago
So what? Don't ask for an email address. Use an OAuth provider instead. Or let people use the server without signing up. Or assign users a random number as their log in.

There are plenty of options available if you don't want the "burden" of securing your users private data, but ignoring if isn't one of them any more. This is a good thing.