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Re: Show HN: Startup with no website - GuerillaClick@gmail.com

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Post by sleepychu »

nine_k wrote: post #23

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.

In that regard though, it's not different to existing throwaway email services. I'd use this sort of thing for registering for annoying things like "free" wifi.

Re: Show HN: Startup with no website - GuerillaClick@gmail.com

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Post by gpm »

nine_k wrote: post #23

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.

It's no crazier than using any other disposable email service... if I'm registering an account at neopets.org or whatever I probably just don't care.

Re: Show HN: Startup with no website - GuerillaClick@gmail.com

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Post by ArtWomb »

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 ;)

Re: Show HN: Startup with no website - GuerillaClick@gmail.com

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Post by modzu »

swongel wrote: post #5

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

Re: Show HN: Startup with no website - GuerillaClick@gmail.com

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Post by TeMPOraL »

bpicolo wrote: post #18
ioulian wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

I switched to mails under domain I own (and powered by FastMail) some time ago; I now use alias@username.mydomain form. Try to filter for that without breaking non-aliased e-mails!

Re: Show HN: Startup with no website - GuerillaClick@gmail.com

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Post by dkoston »

ReadyPlayerNone wrote: post #7

Interesting, I've a few questions as food for thought. - Is it allowed under GMail's TOS? - Have you considered the security implications of having what is presumably a server somewhere in your name clicking on any link that's sent to it? - You say startup - do you have monetization plans? Putting adverts on the associated website perhaps?

Google TOS is pretty broad. However, one of the main factors here is that export controls could quickly come into play. Since Google is US-based, providing this service for those in embargoed countries could get you shut down quickly.

They also have a "don't misuse our services" clause and I'm sure this would count as misuse if found.

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