martenson

true, however this event seems like a significant daily spike: https://stats.documentfoundation.org/downloads#day,version

Not as impossible as you might think. This service was doing it for free in seconds when I tested it last summer: https://github.com/disposable-email-domains/disposable-email...

Thanks for this info.

Thanks for summing it up. All of this is correct afaik. What I wanted to respond to was the implication that Google is somehow part of this. It is not. This project started before Dustin joined Google open source and was already couple of years old when Dustin himself joined.

To work around our list while having a decent level of privacy just do not use a complete burner address. You can e.g. make a pseudonym address with an actual provider like gmail, fastmail, protonmail etc. Heck we even have an allowlist with some "shady" providers that balance on the edge included in the repo, just browse: https://github.com/disposable-email-domains/disposable-email...

Sometimes it's hard. We try to keep our little list useful but it can never be a full solution -- I hope it cannot ever be and people value their privacy enough to not give up the freedoms of internet and TCP/IP.

As of gmail -- one of the guidelines for the list addition is whether you need to go through some sort of a registration. If you do then it is usually not treated as disposable by us.

I started the repo and have nothing to do with Google.