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The "trick" is both popular and commonly made to be moot by programmers. Source: I know programmers at multiple companies that have written production code to s
by asaph 8y ago
The "trick" is both popular and commonly made to be moot by programmers. Source: I know programmers at multiple companies that have written production code to strip the +suffix from the username portion of gmail addresses.
- chainsaw10 8y agoIf someone does that with one of my (custom domain) addresses, it won’t work, here’s what I implemented: https://zackorndorff.com/2015/03/10/disposable-email-addresses-with-postfix/ https://zackorndorff.com/2015/03/10/disposable-email-address... (To save you a click, they look like aa_COMPANY+SHORTHASH@mydomain.com, with shorthash being based on COMPANY and a secret) Downside is the address ends up absurdly long, and I’ve had to manually create some aliases for companies that won’t accept the plus. I don’t recommend this setup, it’s kind of a pain to maintain, but I wish one of the mainstream providers would implement something similar.
- Breza 8y agoAgreed. This isn't done just for ad targeting, either. If a user invokes a GDPR right to be forgotten, it's useful to make sure you've found all the instances of that user's email address in your system regardless of the +additions.