Google Has Most of My Email Because It Has All of Yours (2014)

Re:Google Has Most of My Email Because It Has All of Yours (... by cube00 on Sunday October 23, 2022 @12:09AM (#33304495)

Using your own domain also has advantages in terms of being able to use aliases for different websites so (when, not if) an address gets leaked you can > /dev/null it.

If you're cheap like me you can give family members their own subdomain so everyone can have aliases for the cost of a single domain.

It's sad to think back on myself nearly two decades ago when Gmail first launched as invitation service and I thought I was being smart by not paying for my own domain, little did I know how evil Google would turn out to be in terms of locking people out of their own accounts with no recourse.

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Re:Google Has Most of My Email Because It Has All of Yours (... by arglebargle123 on Sunday October 23, 2022 @05:43AM (#33305746)

Not defending big G here in the slightest but you can do that with Gmail aliases too: Someaddr+alias@gmail resolves to Someaddr@gmail.

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Re:Google Has Most of My Email Because It Has All of Yours (... by 400thecat on Sunday October 23, 2022 @05:58AM (#33305799)

OK, but if the point was to obfuscate your "precious" address and use some other "throwaway" address, then this does not work. Your email address can be easily deconstructed and used for spam

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Re:Google Has Most of My Email Because It Has All of Yours (... by jasec57322 on Sunday October 23, 2022 @08:21AM (#33306381)

Most providers now block Gmail addresses containing . or +

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Re:Google Has Most of My Email Because It Has All of Yours (... by danaris on Sunday October 23, 2022 @06:01PM (#33310710)

This has not been my experience.

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