Show HN: NBox – Sign up anywhere without giving your email address
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Re: Show HN: NBox – Sign up anywhere without giving your email address
#2Hi, I'm David, one of the developers of nBox.
nBox generates for you an email address for each site, for free.
- Effortlessly thanks to our browser extensions
- Addresses are anonymous and private
- Delete the addresses you don't want any more
- Be notified according to your preferences on each email
I'm looking to share the service. Any feedback is very welcome.
Thanks!
Re: Show HN: NBox – Sign up anywhere without giving your email address
#3It's a neat concept and useful especially for heavy internet users.
Re: Show HN: NBox – Sign up anywhere without giving your email address
#4I need this for cell #s
Having said that, I plan on using this.
Re: Show HN: NBox – Sign up anywhere without giving your email address
#5How does it work? I mean how does it generate addresses that aren't blocked by the a services (like mailinator and similar throwaway email sites)? Does it use thousands of random domains?
Re: Show HN: NBox – Sign up anywhere without giving your email address
#6So how is this different from something like Mailinator.com? In my opinion, I can't see a use case in which I'd care enough to have my temporary email private. If I cared enough I'd just use my real email.
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Re: Show HN: NBox – Sign up anywhere without giving your email address
#8Why is it required to enable notifications from the nbox site in order to generate an address?
Re: Show HN: NBox – Sign up anywhere without giving your email address
#9As an alternative, you could register a domain with a catch-all email address and simply register for new services on the fly using a unique string for each site. Have the catch-all forward to your main email account.
For example, I would sign-up for HN using hackernews@marak.com and for Reddit using reddit@marak.com
Simple and effective.
Re: Show HN: NBox – Sign up anywhere without giving your email address
#10As an alternative, you could register a domain with a catch-all email address and simply register for new services on the fly using a unique string for each site. Have the catch-all forward to your main email account. For example, I would sign-up for HN using hackernews@marak.com and for Reddit using reddit@marak.com Simple and effective.
If you do this, make sure you lock down your account at your domain registrar. A socially engineered DNS hijack could be all it takes to obtain full read/write access to your email.