[dovvdkc]

“For one study, Norton and his collaborator paid each respondent about 46 euros for every completed questionnaire. “You can run a survey on regular people for like a dollar,” “

Hmm I refused to give my email to a cable provider for a $100 Best Buy gift card (I was in Best Buy). At the time I thought who would trade their email address for a lousy $100?

Now I know.

[kaybe]

Do you only have one email adress? I wouldn't give out the main one, but some of the others.. or just make a new account somewhere and forward it to your main, then delete it if it ever collects spam.

[dovvdkc]

I don’t like to give out my fake one either. Wouldn’t want my porn spam to get diluted by COMCAST offers.

Actually you could learn a lot about me and who I am by cross referencing all the places i’ve given my fake address to. Since I don’t want to create a thousand fake addresses, I don’t give that out either for a mere $100

[kaybe]

I see, though $100 is not that little.. I like mailhero (mailhero.io) where you can give out unique email adresses (free, but maybe better not for important stuff) but of course it is not very hard to trace.

(It works like this: You have one identifier (eg smith) and then add anythingn before the dot, like [e-mail]), so the identifier is the same in all cases.)