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submitted 7 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) by mark@programming.dev to c/technology@lemmy.world

This makes me 😭

UPDATE: Thanks @nekusoul@lemmy.nekusoul.de for this update: The issue has now been commented on and was closed by the maintainer, where they explained why those blocks would be nonsense. But it appears the OP wants to still talk with maintainer privately about it.

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[-] ransomwarelettuce@lemmy.world 95 points 7 months ago

OK simplelogin you can make an argument there, very stupid one though.

But protonmail and tutanota, wtf ?!?

Just because an email provider is privacy focused and offers custom aliases means all it's emails are spam ?

Fuck this shit.

[-] joe_cool@lemmy.ml 46 points 7 months ago

I wonder what happens when they find out that you can do my.name+alias@gmail.com

[-] helpmyusernamewontfi 27 points 7 months ago

they seem to have it "covered"

[-] kameecoding@lemmy.world 14 points 7 months ago

on both his issues he tries to contact the author of the repo to discuss some change that's too sensitive to talk about openly, lol

[-] ransomwarelettuce@lemmy.world 6 points 6 months ago

To be fair that's quite easy to check with a simple regex, you can see that in many services that have cached up to that.

[-] fishpen0@lemmy.world 5 points 6 months ago

That one is not anonymous at all and it’s super easy to extract the “real” email for advertising and spam purposes if you wish to do so

[-] capital@lemmy.world 4 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)
[-] QuadratureSurfer@lemmy.world 3 points 6 months ago

Looks like you can even do this with iCloud accounts. They only let you have 3 at a time, but you can delete them whenever and create more as needed.

https://support.apple.com/guide/icloud/add-and-manage-email-aliases-mm6b1a490a/icloud

[-] MacNCheezus 12 points 7 months ago

Advertisers aren't interested in your privacy. Simple as.

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