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

#101
I've been using 33mail.com for years for this. I just give it an address like "hackernews@username.33mail.com" and it forwards email. If hackernews ever starts spamming, 33mail gives me a link to block it.

I love that service, it's saved me countless headaches.

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

#102
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I've had a catch-all for *@mydomain.com forward to my primary email address for 10+ years. In that time I signed up for services and websites with [domain]@mydomain.com thinking I'd catch all those dirty scoundrels selling my email address and have an easy way to filter unwanted mail. But you know what really happened? I wound up with hard to remember email logins and caught less than a handful of services sharing my…

lol. I have nico+domainname@domain.com , it's a standard alias used by google apps to forward to nico@domain.com

It's worth it and only 1 password

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

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post #95

I've had a catch-all for *@mydomain.com forward to my primary email address for 10+ years. In that time I signed up for services and websites with [domain]@mydomain.com thinking I'd catch all those dirty scoundrels selling my email address and have an easy way to filter unwanted mail. But you know what really happened? I wound up with hard to remember email logins and caught less than a handful of services sharing my…

This is exactly what I do, and it's worked beautifully for me. (domainname)@mydomain.com is pretty standard/easy, and storing it in password manager makes it even easier.

Tangential question - I've been meaning to set this up - how are you hosting your own email domain? Fastmail/Gsuite/self-hosted?

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

#105

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This is exactly what I do, and it's worked beautifully for me. (domainname)@mydomain.com is pretty standard/easy, and storing it in password manager makes it even easier.

Tangential question - I've been meaning to set this up - how are you hosting your own email domain? Fastmail/Gsuite/self-hosted?

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

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Gmail allows you to create unlimited unique addresses by using the + symbol. so you could do: username+trello@gmail.com. It's worked well for me for a few years. The only downsides I see are that (very few) sites still complain about the perfectly legal + symbol and some sites / bots are probably starting to reverse engineer that since it still exposes your username. But so far, I've yet to have a single site or serv…

Hi toddmorey, yes a well-known trick ;) The downside is that the + part can be easily removed by spammers.

I have a personal Gmail account that I give to real life friends and real met-in-person humans who want to directly contact me. And then a web gmail where everything is labeled with a plus(if websites don't accept the plus, I use a series of periods in the first portion of the email to make it unique. Then, I forward all emails with whitelisted +whatever's from my web mail to my personal mail.

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

#107
So a lot of systems these days use email password recovery, is this not just adding another attack vector ?.

> bdav24: Hi water42, don't ever trust anyone with your data, governments and big companies get hacked every day. Our angle: we don't ask for any personal information

You will be able to route/read all of an individuals inbound mail ?

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

#108
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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.

You'll need to fix that. As other have pointed out: If I'm not a fan of spam then I'm likely not a fan of desktop notifications either.

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

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post #54

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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.

The service is fine as-is. It sounds like a perfect complement for a password manager like LastPass or 1Password. All the points brought up are addressed by the password manager: sync across multiple devices, use multiple browsers, etc. A password manager generates random data for the password textbox. Your extension generates random data for the email textbox. Perfect!

I was thinking the same thing! Come back to me when it integrates with LastPass

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

#110
post #93

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This is why you might consider maintaining a white list or white pattern instead.

Easier to use sub-/plus-addressing rather than maintaining a list.

That seems like a white pattern to me.
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