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I don’t see how this very pleasant user friendly feature of Gmail is an issue. IIRC, email addresses are not even case insensitive. So foo@example.com isn’t nec
by koolba 8y ago
I don’t see how this very pleasant user friendly feature of Gmail is an issue. IIRC, email addresses are not even case insensitive. So foo@example.com isn’t necessarily FOO@example.com.
Websites should be validating email addresses by sending them an email with an (expiring quickly) link and having the user act upon it. Short of that there’s no way for you to know that a user controls a given address.
- josteink 8y agoGmail enables a high-risk non-standard feature to 100% of its users, while optimistically only 0.00000001% uses it. That’s grossly irresponsible. Let the users who needs aliases enable them explicitly and manage them themselves.
- koolba 8y agoI’m clearly biased working in tech but from my anecdata the gmail “address hacks” are used by significantly more than 0.00000001% of the population. And not just because that’s 1 out 10 billion people. Regardless that’s no excuse for shitty software and websites that don’t follow standards. Literally anything before the @ sign is fair game to be interpreted by the email server as it sees fit. That include emojis, case sensitive names, and most punctuation. Assuming email addresses are unique because the text is unique is simply wrong.