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

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

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Post by meitham »

onesociety2022 wrote: post #107
charcircuit wrote: post #102

Earlier quoted context omitted.

By such a definition any tradition related to gender would be sexist. The tradition is that the wife will change her name. This tradition is why it makes up the majority of cases.

Not really - this “tradition” as you call it obviously started back in the day when women did not have equal rights in society and only the husband’s lineage mattered.

How do you propose fixing that? Let the kids take both parents last names? In few generations you end with kids having their entire family tree as their last name! It might even make marrying within the tribe attractive again to keep last name single word!

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Post by cromka »

Dries007 wrote: post #69
9dev wrote: post #50

Oh, finally. I’m one of the first.last@gmail folks, which I assumed would never change when I was 13 years old (hah!). Fast forward a few years, I got married, and am stuck with my old name in the address.

A bit off topic, but changing your name when getting married is so strange to me. It is not at all common where I live (Belgium), in fact I don't think I personally know a single person who did.

Actually it's strange to learn that outside Spain and Portugal there are other countries in EU where you do not change your name when married!

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Post by cromka »

guessmyname wrote: post #121

One of my email addresses is {MyNameKP}@gmail.com. “KP” were just random letters I picked years ago and they don’t mean anything. I also own {MyName}@hotmail.com. Someone once asked why I don’t use {MyName}@gmail.com, so I went home to try to sign up for it, but Gmail said the address already exists. I figured someone else had it and might sell, so I emailed them. Gmail auto-replied that the address doesn’t exist. Wh…

Aren't email addresses reserved once you delete an account? Maybe that's what happened?

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Post by Panoramix »

brikym wrote: post #55

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

I find that just about everybody is leaking my data. Either on purpose or accidentally. But at the end of the day I do want to order those online exotic vegetables and have very little choice of sites to do it in my country. At this point I don't care anymore. Maybe I should but in a sense it's too late. It's been decades of leaked information, I'm certain the advertising companies know me better than my friends. And still royally fail at selling me stuff. They likely use this info for more nefarious things.

I hate that 90% of the effort on the internet is about stealing information from users and serving invasive ads.

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Post by fph »

firefax wrote: post #18
cedws wrote: post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Email services in general. My worst nightmare is my email provider (which isn't Google) going dark and losing access to everything.

If you use a password manager like Keepass, you should still be able to log into your other accounts if you lost access and at least with financial institutions you can call, ask that no changes be made with without coming into the branch and showing ID.

If you use a password manager like Keepass, you can put your TOTP into it as well. With both a password and a keyfile it's still two factors, technically.

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Post by cromka »

NewJazz wrote: post #133
fragmede wrote: post #58

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Whois privacy is basically standard these days, no?

Yes but all of your aliases would be under the same domain so one could surmise that the same person uses the domain.

You can usually setup several domains. Some domains are very cheap to register, so you can register some inconspicuous, universal, email provider-sounding domain and add aliases at will.

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Post by thiht »

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…

I had the same issue with my Hotmail address. I know the address and password, but Microsoft won’t let me login. And they ask ridiculous things like, what emails are in the inbox. I haven’t used this address for 20 years, I just want to access the Hotmail address from when I was a teenager.

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Post by chrismorgan »

rsync wrote: post #59
buu700 wrote: post #41

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> service@myowndomain.com Just be aware that this may be very confusing to customer support agents: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32475178

FWIW, I have been using the companyname@mydomain.com auto-alias for many years now and I've never had it challenged nor rejected by a human or a machine.

I’ve also been doing it for quite a few years, and I think I had it rejected by a machine once, and I had it questioned by a human once.

I’ve had way more problems from systems that think TLDs are two or three characters (which has never been true).

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Post by markdown »

Beijinger wrote: post #143
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.

Huh? Are phone numbers tied to physical sims in your country? You can't just ask the phone company to give you a new sim with the same number?
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