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Google is 'gradually rolling out' option to change your gmail.com address

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Post by phyzome »

schrodinger wrote: post #83
HocusLocus wrote: post #5

Boss move that I learned under great difficulty: a new temporary gmail alias for every jobsearch.

As a hiring manager, I just want to give you a heads up that we are getting tons of fake applicants—like 5–10%—that end up being a real person on a video chat isn’t some AI assistant that uses a teleprompter interface to tell them what to say. Usually by that point you catch them, but your recruiter screen might not etc. So now all the main HR tools are using “age of email” as one possible signal to detect fraud. I’m…

What does it mean for an email address to "resolve" to a cell company?

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Post by phyzome »

brikym wrote: post #55

I really want unlimited aliases for signing up to sites and tracking who is leaking my data.

I sign up with a different email address on every website. (I have a catchall at my domain, rather than using plus-addressing.)

The results are more boring than you think. Almost no one leaks my address. A couple have been hacked, but almost all of those are widely known. (I did discover one early and help Troy Hunt validate a leak.) At least one Kickstarter campaign has shared my address, as has a local business. But that seems to be the extent of it.

I still do it, because I did manage to catch those things, and because it reduces cross-site correlation. But yeah, there's less skeevy behavior than you might think.

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Post by Beijinger »

firefax wrote: post #7

I wish they'd let me recover my original -- I lost my TOTP generator, and the codes I'd written down in a paper notebook were rejected. I even hunted down the electronic copy in case there was a transcription error -- seemed like some failure in their systems was causing me to lose access despite having followed proper procedures. Lost a decade and a half of correspondence dating back to my teenage years. I had impor…

Gmail is a throwaway email. I lost my SIM and hence can't log in anymore.

Never ever rely on Gmail.

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Post by esafak »

pests wrote: post #129
esafak wrote: post #125

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You should have given a more complete example, where the parents themselves have long names to demonstrate that something does have to get dropped when you have children.

Hughes and Thompson were both dropped in their example.

My bad, I misread the parents' names as their full names.

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Post by anonymars »

gcanyon wrote: post #137
anonymars wrote: post #74

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That's funny, as it's the same reason I moved off Gmail. Most egregious was a reply to my message ending up in spam, and the other party was someone also on Gmail

That's where the in:anywhere search is your friend. It searches all mail.

What I mean is, the mandatory spam filter was so braindead it sent a reply to my own message to spam, which is itself absurd, but even moreso because the other party was also using Gmail

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Post by jonway »

xeonmc wrote: post #79
DetectDefect wrote: post #66

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Back up your seeds! Aegis for Android lets you do encrypted exports.

Or just write down the TOTP seed on paper backups instead of backup codes.

Works for google (should!) but man there are some platforms that don’t expose the Totp code, or let you redisplay it! Sometimes they make you remove the old one before you can make a new one, too.

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Post by jonathanlydall »

I wonder if they’ll make it work like Outlook.com’s support for multiple email addresses on the same account which they made a fully first class feature.

Although I primarily use a Gmail for my personal email, I still have a Hotmail address from the 90s.

For at least 10 years now Outlook.com and Microsoft accounts have supported multiple aliases.

This has allowed me to keep my old cringey box name at Hotmail address, but also have a name.surname@outlook.com on the same account, which looks nicer for Microsoft services I use, like Windows login with OneDrive.

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Post by ashv »

subscribed wrote: post #93
JumpCrisscross wrote: post #34

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Sorry, I meant an external recovery method. Another e-mail address or a phone number.

Another email address is useless. Another phone humber only works if you didn't lose that phone.

Why would another email address be useless?

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Post by iwontberude »

firefax wrote: post #7

I wish they'd let me recover my original -- I lost my TOTP generator, and the codes I'd written down in a paper notebook were rejected. I even hunted down the electronic copy in case there was a transcription error -- seemed like some failure in their systems was causing me to lose access despite having followed proper procedures. Lost a decade and a half of correspondence dating back to my teenage years. I had impor…

You think that sucks, my childhood angelfire is gone.

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Post by JackeJR »

cedws wrote: post #46
saint_yossarian wrote: post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You can use a custom domain with most providers, so when they go dark you can at least migrate to another one.

Two things about fronting with your own domain: 1. You have to own that domain forever, until or at least until you're 100% confident that an email intended for you will never be sent to that domain ever again. Even then, there are security risks with giving up the domain. 2. You give up some privacy. You can use mailbox aliases but it doesn't really matter if all the mailboxes are tied to a domain registered to your…

For (1) you can prepay i think up to 10 years? And every year you just prepay 1 year again and you will have 10 years to remember that you forgot to pay a domain registration bill.
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