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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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