Are email address being processed by the provider obvious

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The user epoberezkin (which I believe to be a SimpleX employee) disagreed with this point.

I challenge that, however I am not convinced yet that, it is fair to give a service a bad point for using an email provider. And I would argue its obvious that an email provider will process an email address. I believe there are also exceptions for this in GDPR although I would need to look that up.

What are your thoughts?

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