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Re:T-Mobile to share customers' data with advertisers unless... by yellowapple on Tuesday March 09, 2021 @06:51PM (#26406056)
> I'm not sure what people do who only have one email address.

A bit of a tangential point, but most systems ain't smart enough to know that [email protected] and [email protected] are aliases of one another. Handy trick for keeping spam isolated; if you start getting unsolicited marketing emails from [email protected], then it strongly suggests who was naughty with your personal info :)

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Re:T-Mobile to share customers' data with advertisers unless... by dehrmann on Wednesday March 10, 2021 @12:08AM (#26408002)
> smart enough

Isn't this just a Gmail thing? It isn't necessarily an alias for any given email provider.

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Re:T-Mobile to share customers' data with advertisers unless... by yellowapple on Wednesday March 10, 2021 @11:16PM (#26420152)
It ain't exclusively a Gmail thing - other mailservers support it, too - but Gmail was indeed an early adopter of it, I believe.
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