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Mozilla's Firefox Relay to be added to disposable-email-domains blacklist

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Re: Mozilla's Firefox Relay to be added to disposable-email-domains blacklist

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if you're having issues with disposable emails, you need to either add phone verification or make it so people can try your service (or view prices!) without signing up

phone verification sucks, though. I refuse to use anything that has it mandatorily. And disposable emails are also a problem because of spam.

Re: Mozilla's Firefox Relay to be added to disposable-email-domains blacklist

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Is iCloud's "Hide My E-mail" on the list too?

It doesn't look like it is: https://github.com/disposable-email-domains/disposable-email...

Edit: icloud.com seems to be another domain used in Hide My Email but is also not present (although I guess this one is actually primarily used for permanent addresses): https://github.com/disposable-email-domains/disposable-email...

Re: Mozilla's Firefox Relay to be added to disposable-email-domains blacklist

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if you're having issues with disposable emails, you need to either add phone verification or make it so people can try your service (or view prices!) without signing up

Just get rid of the password and require email based magic link login.

Fine use a disposable email but the account will be wiped soon when you never log back in again.

Re: Mozilla's Firefox Relay to be added to disposable-email-domains blacklist

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The reason disposable email addresses exist and are popular is because services have abused users' trust to not use these emails for shady ad revenue and marketing schemes.

It's further compounded by shoddy security that leads to leaks and exposure of people's personal email addresses to pwned compromised lists.

People don't want to give up their personal email addresses so that they can be spammed or hacked. Until services do better (ie don't sell me out for cheap) I'll keep using the latest disposable email address to sign up for your user-hostile websites.

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