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Just make sure that account is not associated with any of your real data (even IP). There have been horror stories at /r/TIFU about people getting their personal accounts suspended and the whole enterprise account with them. If Google gets angry about you, your life MIGHT be ruined –partially–
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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.
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.
If you are worried about your user details getting stolen after signing up with someone else's email- You aren't using this service correctly. The idea is to not give away your email or signup for a website, but get access to that website.
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 ;)
If something like this becomes popular, one might expect sites concerned about non-human verification to add a captcha to their verification page before the account is considered verified.
I started my startup with a website to do a disposable emails service: mailcare.io It's also available in open source.
When Google inevitably shuts this down can you opensource the link clicking program?
My code was tied to a Google Sheet that would hourly pull matching emails, use a regex to extract the link, send an HTTP request to the URL, and record the URL and response in the spreadsheet.
Having a high level description of the code isn't as useful as the code itself. Alas, my code was part of my Google account at a previous employer.
Did you get the idea from GuerrillaMail? https://www.guerrillamail.com/
I like the idea, but it probably is against Google's TOS, so there's that ...