Re:An Ode to Apple’s Hide My Email
by MrRiddle on Sunday April 10, 2022 @03:49PM
(#30981000)
It’s trivial to figure out main gmail address?
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Re:An Ode to Apple’s Hide My Email
by cubesnooper on Sunday April 10, 2022 @03:58PM
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It’s almost as trivial with this format too, at least to guess what address is used for other services, though it has a strong advantage over using ‘+’ in GMail in that nothing will try this automatically. It’s hard to believe anyone would intentionally try to guess a different service’s email to spam to it, but even so in my setup I prefer to eliminate this possibility completely by adding a random number to the service name: [email protected], and so on, with no catchall for invalid addresses.
So far the most spam I’ve gotten has been to the address I used for Amazon (probably leaked by a third‐party seller there).
Re:An Ode to Apple’s Hide My Email
by binwiederhier on Sunday April 10, 2022 @04:07PM
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> It’s almost as trivial with this format too
I mean you can pick any format you want before the "@", but yeah my format is trivial. Nobody has tried to do it automatically yet though, as far as I can tell.