How Mailinator compresses its email stream by 90%

Re:How Mailinator compresses its email stream by 90% by ohashi on Tuesday February 21, 2012 @04:21PM (#3618139)

I worry we're going to need disposable social ids now too like email. That's something facebook/twitter probably won't appreciate. I would LOVE to try a lot of services that require one of those logins but am not comfortable giving them access to my info.

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Re:How Mailinator compresses its email stream by 90% by xp84 on Tuesday February 21, 2012 @08:04PM (#3618813)

Create an "alter ego" account on Facebook. http://www.fakenamegenerator.com/gen-random-us-us.php if you need fake name and address ideas, or just use whatever you wish your name was. If you get too funny with the name though, FB's filter won't believe your name.

Then, keep a separate Chrome profile that's logged into the fake facebook, and your identity is safe. Probably best to lock down all privacy settings on the fake user to absolute maximum lockdown, to avoid information leaking onto Facebook's public layer that may tie you to it.

That was the strategy I used when I worked for a company that did business with Facebook games. Those things were so spammy, I would never want my actual friends to be spammed with all the viral content. To this day I keep my fake account for any and all untrusted FB-related things.

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Re:How Mailinator compresses its email stream by 90% by markokocic on Wednesday February 22, 2012 @03:44AM (#3620017)

Facebook now requires your phone number in order to register. Have a way to use fake phone too?

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Re:How Mailinator compresses its email stream by 90% by lambada on Wednesday February 22, 2012 @04:32AM (#3620136)

I'm fairly certain this is untrue. Looking at the signup form, all I can see is name, email, password, birthdate and gender. They may ask for it later, but that almost certainly is optional.

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Re:How Mailinator compresses its email stream by 90% by zizee on Wednesday February 22, 2012 @10:45PM (#3623692)

This is sort of true. If you want to use the account as a developer account you have to register your phone number. Also probably to advertise.

I recently wanted to create an "Admin" account for a client I was developing a web-app for as I didn't want to link my personal facebook account to my work. But with the phone number requirement the account got flagged and rejected from the system.

Frustrating!

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Re:How Mailinator compresses its email stream by 90% by morsch on Wednesday February 22, 2012 @06:26AM (#3620428)

There are SIP providers which offer phone numbers on their free tiers. But I'm sure they would appreciate registering throwaway accounts even less than Facebook and its ilk.

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Re:How Mailinator compresses its email stream by 90% by DennisP on Wednesday February 22, 2012 @06:25AM (#3620426)

If that's true, a $15 tracfone takes care of it.

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Re:How Mailinator compresses its email stream by 90% by markokocic on Wednesday February 22, 2012 @07:02AM (#3620511)

Sorry, but fake facebook account isn't worth that much. YMMV.

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Re:How Mailinator compresses its email stream by 90% by JoshTriplett on Tuesday February 21, 2012 @05:06PM (#3618260)

BrowserID solves that one: a disposable email becomes a disposable identity.

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