Can someone find me on WordPress using my e-mail address?

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  ambitious85 · Member · Sep 6, 2013 at 10:41 pm

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  I want my profile to be for people I don’t know so that I get unbiased feedback on my posts, rather than feedback from people I know.

  Are people able to search your profile on WordPress by searching using your e-mail? If yes then is there any way from preventing this?

  Thanks
  Manpreet

  The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)

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  raincoaster · Member · Sep 6, 2013 at 10:43 pm

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  If you leave a comment on a blog, then the blogger can see your email but others can’t. If you make your username or blog URL or title the same as your email, then yes, it’s easy. Otherwise, no.

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  raincoaster · Member · Sep 6, 2013 at 10:44 pm

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  WAIT: That’s all true UNLESS you register a gravatar. People use gravatars all over, anywhere they put in an email, so it is theoretically very possible to track someone using a gravatar, or at least figure out what email it’s connected to.

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  ambitious85 · Member · Sep 6, 2013 at 10:48 pm

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  @raincoaster ok great, so I won’t use a gravatar in that case. I’d like to keep my profile as anonymous as possible. Thanks for the feedback :)

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  auxclass · Member · Sep 6, 2013 at 11:27 pm

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  What about data attached to pictures??, some images have a lot of info with them