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Because some services have sensitive information and need a reliable way to contact you. If you use my service and attach your credit card to pay for it, and us
by joshmanders 10y ago
Because some services have sensitive information and need a reliable way to contact you. If you use my service and attach your credit card to pay for it, and used a disposable email to sign up with and your account gets breached, who's fault is it that I couldn't email you and let you know?
Sure if it's some throw away service that doesn't have such sensitive information, that's fine, but there's many reasons to use such a service.
- jakebasile 10y agoThat makes sense, thanks. My line of thought was that if someone is using a disposable address they probably aren't going to respond to marketing anyways - they're just checking out your service.
- dingaling 10y ago> who's fault is it that I couldn't email you and let you know? The user's fault; they are knowingly trading that risk for protection of their privacy. That says a lot for how they regard the service in question. What about rejecting ISP-issued e-mail addresses? Those are also ephemeral, for those who use them. What about Yahoo! / Outlook.com / Gmail addresses? in the vast majority of cases people using those have no 'hold' on them and their accounts can be suspended at whim. Domain-related addresses can be lost if the registry decides to hike the domain prices beyond affordability, such as with the 1000% increase in Uniregistry gTLDs later this year. Where to draw the line? All e-mail addresses are temporary.