I’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 jus

I’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.