Privacy settings not being respected and email address always public

[Ariana]

In email settings I can read under the email address input: “Never shown to the public”

That isn’t being respected, first thing that I noticed after I posted the topic that I signed up for posting, is that my email address is always shown, no matter if I’m logged in or not, or from what device.

Please fix this, I was never warned that my email address would actually be publicly visible, and I can’t change it.

[bslwannabe]

Go to your profile then Preferences and blat away your personal name which for some bizarre reason Mozilla set to our email addresses when we create accounts. But then Mozilla are using an old version of Discourse.

[mikoMK (Michael Koch)]

It’s sad that this is still an open issue.
We reported it some months ago:

Email is displayed by default for the new account

Hello mozila there issue in the discourse setting that each time a new user create account the default setting that it display the user email address which should not happen could someone from the admin fix that as that was not the case long ago could you @fminelli help with that and here some extra details and issue posted in github in this post thanks for everyone and have a nice day

Maybe also leave a comment there to remind the Mozilla people that this is still a problem. There are even bugs open on Bugzilla and GitHub, but no one actively maintaining it.

[bslwannabe]

@mikoMK

It’s sad that this is still an open issue.
We reported it some months ago:

And here too.

Spam in my Firefox email

A few weeks ago, I set up a Firefox account with the intention of creating some add-ons. I created a new email address specifically for this purpose. Since posting in this forum a week ago, I’ve received five spam emails to this account. My profile says that my email address is “never shown to the public”. Since I haven’t used the email address anywhere but here, I’m hoping someone can provide an explanation.

@mikoMK

Maybe also leave a comment there to remind the Mozilla people that this is still a problem.

I flagged the OP for moderator consideration. Maybe that will kick them into action and finally sort the mess out.

[Ariana]

Thank you @bslwannabe and @mikoMK… I can’t believe how silly this problem is and how it isn’t fixed yet.