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by swombat 5551 days ago
More than that - a number of services (for example B2B SaaS) depend on knowing the email identity of their user. Are you John Jones <john.jones@goldmansachs.com>? Of course you are, you signed up with that email address and the system accepted you.

If a system like, say, Woobius, doesn't confirm emails, people will abuse this lack of feature.