Re:Two billion email addresses were exposed
by mapt on Friday November 07, 2025 @11:07AM
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It was infuriating to me when [email protected] stopped working for registration on some sites.
Fucked up my Costco registration, a variety of other things.
This sort of quasi-pseudonymity is required for basic security/privacy in 2025; It's the only way to get a handle on who's allowed to send you email, since we've never bothered to fix spoofing or impose a cost on spam. I've been trying to use it since Sneakemail was a free service back in the pre-Gmail days.
Re:Two billion email addresses were exposed
by thallium205 on Friday November 07, 2025 @02:21PM
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Many spammers will strip the +xxxx out of the emails anyway to not reveal the source of their data so it doesn't matter too much really.
For people who want to do this, be sure to get it right. I run a SaaS with a free tier, and I see people register with "[email protected]" addresses. Many of those become undeliverable or are left unread forever because of filtering rules. So when my system sends a warning E-mail that the account will be deleted due to inactivity, it doesn't get read, which leads to suboptimal outcomes for everyone involved.