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Re: Show HN: NBox – Sign up anywhere without giving your email address

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Post by greggyb »

_Marak_ wrote: post #9

As 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.

But it's also more easily traceable to you.

With a service aggregating these, we see many users from NBox. Perhaps this is not a concern for your use case, but it seems a tradeoff worth considering.

Re: Show HN: NBox – Sign up anywhere without giving your email address

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Post by bdav24 »

cdubzzz wrote: post #18
bdav24 wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Hi cdubzzz, no it's not required.

Here is what I see after I click "GENERATE AN ADDRESS" > "Generate an address for any other reason": http://imgur.com/ktTssbB If I click "Not Now", the prompt goes away and nothing happens. Perhaps I am misunderstanding how the service works?

Ho sorry you're right, technically accepting webpushes is not required, but it's part of the tunnel for now. We're currently changing that, but it's not finished yet.

Re: Show HN: NBox – Sign up anywhere without giving your email address

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Post by bdav24 »

iliketosleep wrote: post #19

I am trying to understand this. Appears to offer bulk accounts that are easy to create and permanent, targeting the market that sits between a) regular email addresses, which are permanent but a pain to sign up for, needing phone verification, etc. and b) throwaway accounts that are easy to create but cannot be kept long-term. This seems like an interesting idea if they own a whole bunch of different domains, but the…

Hi iliketosleep, to allow the notifications a small window should appear at the top of the page. But not all browsers have implemented this feature. What device and browser do you use?

Re: Show HN: NBox – Sign up anywhere without giving your email address

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Post by bdav24 »

ikeboy wrote: post #23

1. Great idea. It's been done by Blur from Abine.com which I've been using for years. 2. Possibly offer the ability to self host this?

Hi ikeboy, you're right the idea is not new. We don't plan to offer this possibility for the moment, but who knows, maybe one day.

Re: Show HN: NBox – Sign up anywhere without giving your email address

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Post by alkonaut »

jacobwg wrote: post #12
jswny wrote: post #6

So 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.

If I had to guess, requiring that each email address be tied to an individual person would allow NBox to stay off "temporary email address" blacklists. It's a privacy service essentially, not an anonymity service. Same reason why credit card masking services are legal, but Visa/MC/etc wouldn't allow a mass-shared CC number.

But a throwaway gmail account works the same yes?

Re: Show HN: NBox – Sign up anywhere without giving your email address

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Post by bdav24 »

ionelmarcu wrote: post #20

A link to the chrome extension on the landing page would be quite useful (Otherwise visitors need to go to the chrome web store and search for it...and some of them are too lazy to do it). But otherwise I really like the idea. I'll give it a try ;) P.S. here's the link for the extension: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/nbox-your-registra...

Hi ionelmarcu, yes that was our plan too (I shared before changing the account creation tunnel).

Re: Show HN: NBox – Sign up anywhere without giving your email address

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Post by eriknstr »

_Marak_ wrote: post #9

As 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.

Been there done that. If you catch all e-mail you will also get a lot of spam to random addresses like say sven@marak.com, lollerskates95@marak.com and so on and so forth. So then you need spam filtering anyway, or you need to configure which addresses are valid.

I still host my own e-mail but I no longer do catch-all. There are only a few sites and services I care about. For those I have trusted them with my e-mail address. For all others I use 3rd-party throwaway mail services.

I get less spam now than I did with catch-all.

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