Chrome Opens Trial for the Email Verification API: Letting Sites Verify Without Sending Emails

T2Covered by 1 source · first reported by InfoQ at 28 Oct, 09:32 UTC

Google has opened a Chrome origin trial for the Email Verification API, a WICG proposal that lets the browser confirm email ownership without sending a message. Gmail is the first provider. Developers add form hints and validate a signed token server-side. Commenters question the privacy benefit…