Millions of email addresses leaking to advertising and analytics companies

Re:Millions of email addresses leaking to advertising and an... by stiray on Friday May 01, 2020 @07:21AM (#23040975)

You will have to elaborate, I don't understand. Marker is here just to handle mail on server side and I can easly upgrade it to hash of hash + salt and handle it programatically on server but there was never any need for it. And anyway I couldn't care less, without it mail is invalid, still 0 spam. And I am doing it for last 10 years so it is battle proven.

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Re:Millions of email addresses leaking to advertising and an... by sealjam on Friday May 01, 2020 @08:43AM (#23041418)

I think the responder misread your message and assumed you were adding a suffix like \+\w+ to the end of your email addresses like [email protected] -> [email protected]

Several email providers treat a + symbol as the end of the first part of the address and ignore everything between it and the @.

I think the responder’s point was that analytics providers just ignore things after a + too

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Re:Millions of email addresses leaking to advertising and an... by dhimes on Friday May 01, 2020 @01:24PM (#23044372)

Yes, that's exactly what happened. Oops.

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