That’s pretty funny.
If you use a password manager you could obviously just put something random instead of the company name.
Or just rot13 or some scheme like that.
Re:Become unbannable from your email
by majkinetor on Wednesday October 08, 2025 @11:25AM
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KISS, just add dot somewhere.
No try giving that email at the store.
I meant the password manager would just be to help you keep track of the names. The names themselves don't have to be long (e.g. `[email protected]`).
Re:Become unbannable from your email
by dzhiurgis on Wednesday October 08, 2025 @01:33AM
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Ohhh good point. So many sites basically only accept gmail + some other popular provider.
Re:Become unbannable from your email
by polycaster on Wednesday October 08, 2025 @01:48AM
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I‘m following this scheme for years now and frankly never found a site that only accepts selected providers.
AliExpress is one of them, as far as I know
Re:Become unbannable from your email
by topsecret on Wednesday October 08, 2025 @04:01AM
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AliExpress uses my custom domain, but wouldn't accept anything with "aliexpress" in the local part.
Re:Become unbannable from your email
by ThePowerOfFuet on Wednesday October 08, 2025 @07:24AM
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Correct, so I used "aliexpres" instead, which works.
Re:Become unbannable from your email
by BoredPositron on Wednesday October 08, 2025 @07:03AM
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A lot of asian genai startups are pretty picky and want emails from bigger providers. kling, qwen, hunyuan just to name a few.
Re:Become unbannable from your email
by Imustaskforhelp on Wednesday October 08, 2025 @07:42AM
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Just create a gmail account specifically for it if that's the case.
Re:Become unbannable from your email
by polycaster on Wednesday October 08, 2025 @01:44AM
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Same experience, but a different perception. I’ve always found it to be a great conversation starter when I did this with my business domain. Of course, it’s mainly about spam control, but some people even felt flattered to have their own personal email address. Then there was that one time I tried to open a new bank account using bankname@mydomain - it ended up involving three levels of management. On the bright side, though, they now greet me by name whenever I walk into the building.
Re:Become unbannable from your email
by Imustaskforhelp on Wednesday October 08, 2025 @07:40AM
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I think having a mail just seperately for bank can be good thing instead of having it on your own @mydomain I suppose?
Also can we have things like 2FA in banking apps? I am pretty sure...
Like my idea of thinking is to create a new proton account just for banking and doing the thing as in the article and not really ever linking the two of them or maybe even having a google account if proton causes any issue for my banks.
Re:Become unbannable from your email
by BoredPositron on Wednesday October 08, 2025 @07:00AM
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I had a small mom and pop shop threaten me with legal action because of copyright infringement...
Re:Become unbannable from your email
by yencabulator on Friday October 10, 2025 @01:56PM
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I find [email protected] doesn't trigger any shadiness detectors.
It also results in awkward conversations if you have to talk to staff. I had ordered some pet supplies online a while ago registered like this.
Then I go in store more recently and they ask "Do you have an account with us?", I give them that email when asked, which causes them to pause. We went around a few times of them asking what my email was, before getting a manager who thought I was doing something dodgy and decided to try looking up my account by phone number instead of email.