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Kind of a slap to anyone who uses email aliases to sort/filter email

• ioulian 8y ago
  I use aliases to filter my email and also to see who sells my email address to third parties. All the websites I've used allow "+" in the email address so that's good.
  • bpicolo 8y ago
    You can assume that the companies selling off email data are smart enough to do the entirely trivial "remove + sign to @ sign" transformation for gmail addresses, at least partly because their job tends to be tracking you across a large amount of domains.
    • TeMPOraL 8y ago
      I switched to mails under domain I own (and powered by FastMail) some time ago; I now use alias@username.mydomain form. Try to filter for that without breaking non-aliased e-mails!
      • DarkWiiPlayer 8y ago
        By that point you might as well set a fixed-width length and treat everything after that as an alias, like me@domain.tld would be the base and mespammers@domain.tld would be your alias for spammers.com, etc. Even better, put the alias before the username and keep the + as a separator.
    • bpicolo 8y ago
      Come to think of it, I bet doing this actually gives them better signals than they'd otherwise get, because if they receive emails by word of mouth, then they get additional context as to what sites you're signing up to.