Huge Issue: Feedburner exposes your email

Discussion in 'Google' started by TransPersonal, Sep 10, 2009.

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    When you enable email subscription to one of your feeds via feedburner, if the email update is being sent to a hotmail account then the email address you used to set up the feedburner account is revealed.

    This ofcourse opens you up to receiving spam. I found this to be true only for hotmail accounts and not for gmail. Not sure what the deal is on other email accounts.

    Here's a screen shot of an update I received from a site using feedburner email subscription:


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    TransPersonal, Sep 10, 2009 IP