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That is accurate for any and all approaches with email, but it does not negate the (significant) incremental improvements this strategy grants you.
> "That is accurate for any and all approaches with email" The likelihood of a takeover of @gmail.com or @icloud.com is much lower though.
Relay is very cool but it took me like 24 hours since discovering and adopting it, to being unable to use it for an account. So I cannot recommend it to my family and friends who are much less tech literate than I am. In my case I was trying to create an account on the Linux Mint Forums [1]. The confirmation email never arrived, which was very confusing to me. [1]: https://forums.linuxmint.com/ After a couple emails…
(Tech lead of Relay here) Thanks for the detail! We'll look into this. We definitely want to maximize deliverability.
Seems like a really bad idea to rely on this service.
I've been using this pattern for years. I have a custom domain just for signups, and I sign up with [service].[username]@customdomain. The domain simply has a catchall email "accounts@customdomain" Combined with a password manager (Bitwarden) this is absolutely brilliant. * Spam: if I get any spam, I know exactly which company is responsible, whether directly, through selling user data or because of breaches. And I c…
Heh, I work on Relay and I do the same :) While the approach is great, especially in situations away from my computer where I can't generate a new alias in advance, working on it I discovered that using Relay still has a couple of advantages: - My other addresses are unguessable. - It's far easier to block emails sent to a single alias. With my own domain, I'll have to go and add a filter into which I copy-paste the…
Sometimes "[service]" is also shortened like "hackernews -> hn" to dodge the ban on service name in the e-mail address that some service providers apparently have.
See competitors like https://simplelogin.io/
* SimpleLogin can be self-hosted and is open source * Has an open source app available in the F-Droid open source app store
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> I have a custom domain just for signups I keep reading about people who say they have a custom domain, but I'm not sure they're aware of the caveat to that. You have to keep renewing it, and domains are infamously changing hands all the time, sometimes to bad actors who want to use the SEO juice of the domain for spam or affiliate marketing, or in the worst case: to take over your identity with it. By all means, ye…
I (unexpectedly) went to jail. Try renewing your domains while you are in jail. As you say, now you've lost access to everything. My solution: make sure you keep your domains renewed to the maximum allowed by your registrar if you can. 10 years with dotcoms.
I've been using this pattern for years. I have a custom domain just for signups, and I sign up with [service].[username]@customdomain. The domain simply has a catchall email "accounts@customdomain" Combined with a password manager (Bitwarden) this is absolutely brilliant. * Spam: if I get any spam, I know exactly which company is responsible, whether directly, through selling user data or because of breaches. And I c…
> of course they still use names, address, credit card info, etc I haven't used this service, only heard about it. It might cover your missing piece for credit card info. https://privacy.com/ Of course, privacy.com ends up being the one that can aggregate your CC information together.
This sounds interesting, and I'd pay for it, but it seems to be dependent on a Firefox extension. Sadly, after literally 20+ years of using Firefox, I recently switched to Brave. The performance of FF was wearing on me. I realize it would seem to be very strange if Mozilla were to create a Chromium extension. But in this case, it is a paid service separate from the browser.