This has existed and been free for 22 years already: http://www.mytrashmail.com/
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
#62Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
Can you elaborate on the steps needed to ensure your security in this case?
Spend a decent chunk of money to become a registrar yourself or go with MarkMonitor.
I suppose google domains might be OK for personal email.
Re: Show HN: NBox – Sign up anywhere without giving your email address
#63Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
> more easily traceable to you Depends who is tracking you. If I register some non-personally-identifiable domain "e.g.: bumblebutt.example" and use a WHOIS proxy, you're can only be given up by a registrar... which usually means a warrant. Still paranoid? Pay for the domain using bitcoin you got in exchange for cash/services (there are a lot of registrars that take bitcoin).
Its certainly more traceable from the perspective of metadata aggregation. If you were looking at the users from multiple sites, you could easily consider "*@bumblebutt.example" to be one person thus linking all accounts together.
The benefit of a public site is that you can't use the hostname as an identifer for a single person.
Re: Show HN: NBox – Sign up anywhere without giving your email address
#64I think this is a good idea, but pretty poorly executed again. Another user commented that you could just register your own domain and do this; that's great for the average hacker news reader, but not so great for the average Joe so a service like this (if done correctly) would be pretty convenient. Things that jump out right away as bad about this NBox. 1) It just auto generates an email for me. That's going to be a…
Hi bigtunacan, thanks for your feedback. 1) "That's going to be a pain in the ass to remember": the extensions are there so you don't have to. 2) "how do I login?": we're currently developing this side the service. 3) See 2) 4) We're planning on proposing mobile apps too. To put it into context, nBox is fairly new and we did not implement all our ideas before knowing if people were gonna be interested.
Understood; and I'm not being a hater. I'm just trying to provide some useful feedback after checking out your service.
In regards to the extension though; that's just such a bad direction to go IMHO. Most email is being read on phones these days anyway; does NBox even work from a phone today?
Re: Show HN: NBox – Sign up anywhere without giving your email address
#65Curious as to how they get ramen profitable off of this? Anyone got any ideas?
Hi jv22222, we don't get ramen off of this project. We plan to add paying functionalities some day if they make sense.
Re: Show HN: NBox – Sign up anywhere without giving your email address
#66These days many services ask for a phone number for 2FA just to sign up, it'd be great to have a tool that gave you multiple numbers on demand so you don't have to give out your phone number.
I've been considering just buying a few prepaid SIM cards just for services like this. I'd love some throwaway phone number/ SMS-forwarding services, but most get blacklisted within a few months because spammers immediately jump all over them.
Re: Show HN: NBox – Sign up anywhere without giving your email address
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Hi mgberlin, that's a valid concern, I tried to answer it there: https://www.producthunt.com/posts/nbox#comment-483412 Edit: https://www.producthunt.com/posts/nbox/comments/483328
Working link - https://www.producthunt.com/posts/nbox/comments/483328
Thanks, my link only works for me...
Re: Show HN: NBox – Sign up anywhere without giving your email address
#68Earlier quoted context omitted.
Hi bigtunacan, thanks for your feedback. 1) "That's going to be a pain in the ass to remember": the extensions are there so you don't have to. 2) "how do I login?": we're currently developing this side the service. 3) See 2) 4) We're planning on proposing mobile apps too. To put it into context, nBox is fairly new and we did not implement all our ideas before knowing if people were gonna be interested.
Understood; and I'm not being a hater. I'm just trying to provide some useful feedback after checking out your service. In regards to the extension though; that's just such a bad direction to go IMHO. Most email is being read on phones these days anyway; does NBox even work from a phone today?
No harm taken, the service is not perfect yet and it lacks a lot of functionalities, that we can agree on.
It works on android phones with chrome, but like you said I wouldn't remember the generated addresses, so we think the extension is a big part of the service, and unfortunately, extensions are not available on mobile. We're working on the subject to find the best solution possible.
Re: Show HN: NBox – Sign up anywhere without giving your email address
#69This has existed and been free for 22 years already: http://www.mytrashmail.com/
Hi dmitrygr, the idea is not new, but the link you gave is for disposable email addresses, which are public. That's a different use-case from nBox, where the addresses are private.
Re: Show HN: NBox – Sign up anywhere without giving your email address
#70Hi, 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!
What's your plan when every site starts banning your addresses? I have to spend 15 minutes to find a new non-blacklisted temp-email service every time I want to use one.
Hi deft, that's a concern we have. Some services might block our addresses some day, but that would be a mistake because nBox is not a disposable email service.