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Nowadays, most require SMS confirmation that "You are indeed a human". And thus a mobile phone number. Have often considered wiring up something in Twilio so I can create multiple accounts, etc. But am too lazy to put in the effort. Perfectly willing to trade privacy for convenience in most cases ;)
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I use aliases to filter my email and also to see who sells my email address to third parties. All the websites I've used allow "+" in the email address so that's good.
You can assume that the companies selling off email data are smart enough to do the entirely trivial "remove + sign to @ sign" transformation for gmail addresses, at least partly because their job tends to be tracking you across a large amount of domains.
This is delightfully crazy. Give some random guys with no website your registration record somewhere, allow them to verify your registration as theirs, and then impersonate you, reset passwords, see any communications, possibly log in as yourself and do anything. All this with no recourse. Nigerian spammers moan from envy for such a brilliant self-propelled gullibility filter.
I have first.last@gmail.com and I've had people play poker and lottery and sign up for dating websites with my e-mail address. I've also received confidential information from insurance and building construction companies. It's hilarious.
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The product is a big part of a business, so if you have one, all you need is a business partner and VC's to create a multi-million dollar company.
Yes those are trivial things that are simply an afterthought. The app ain't shit, it's how well the business can execute.
I've worked for companies that made pretty awful products, but they sure knew how to sell 'em.
This is delightfully crazy. Give some random guys with no website your registration record somewhere, allow them to verify your registration as theirs, and then impersonate you, reset passwords, see any communications, possibly log in as yourself and do anything. All this with no recourse. Nigerian spammers moan from envy for such a brilliant self-propelled gullibility filter.
Thanks!
Thank you for making this though.
This is delightfully crazy. Give some random guys with no website your registration record somewhere, allow them to verify your registration as theirs, and then impersonate you, reset passwords, see any communications, possibly log in as yourself and do anything. All this with no recourse. Nigerian spammers moan from envy for such a brilliant self-propelled gullibility filter.
I have first.last@gmail.com and I've had people play poker and lottery and sign up for dating websites with my e-mail address. I've also received confidential information from insurance and building construction companies. It's hilarious.
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To some extent, they can't. (How do you verify the email without being on the wifi?)
some may allow popoular e-mail services (and imap/pop3 ports) traffic, while blocking the others
You can use Mailinator to do this already, you can see all of their inboxes on their website and you can use all of their domains to bypass domain restrictions. For example I might use somethingsilly@bobmail.info and it will be redirected to https://www.mailinator.com/v3/index.jsp?zone=public&query=so...
but the list of mailinator domains is easily looked up and blacklisted by most major sites. the op's insight is that sites won't blacklist gmail