[buro9]

The article doesn't even touch "people enter their email incorrectly when registering an account".

I've received magic links to my Gmail account that belong to other people, for accounts that have ordered flight tickets, or clothing, or digital services.

Those people, I guess they now have no way to access their online account, as they cannot password reset (if that was the fallback), or change their email (usually requiring confirmation), or receive their magic link.

There's nothing I can do here, except to delete the email, I don't have any indication as to what the correct email should be, and the person's name is the same as my legal name and there are a lot of people with that name in the World.

Few services verify an email during sign-up, because I'm sure data shows that added friction during sign-up results in fewer people signing up.

[gepeto42]

You're right, I forgot to even cover that part because I was focused on how annoying they are to me as a user, not necessarily as a service provider. I also forgot to mention how they train people to click on links, how my inbox now consists of dozens of emails per day telling me to either click to login, or warning me that I logged in.

I have my own domains for email so I haven't had the issue of someone else entering my email but I keep hearing from friends getting that.

[denismi]

This happens on my Gmail all the time.

Frankly, if somebody else uses my address for a service and I'm receiving anything other than email verification from that service, I'm reporting it as spam on both Gmail and Fastmail because that's what it is.