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Re:Two billion email addresses were exposed by mapt on Friday November 07, 2025 @11:07AM (#45847821)
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 (#45849950)
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.