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sadly using elite hacking skills this is easily circumvented p0wn3r $cat testerm test@gmail.com foo+netflix@gmail.com foo+ycombinator@gmail.co

sadly using elite hacking skills this is easily circumvented p0wn3r $cat testerm test@gmail.com foo+netflix@gmail.com foo+ycombinator@gmail.com foo+amazon@wizmail.com p0wn3r $cat testerm | sed 's/+.*@/@/' test@gmail.com foo@gmail.com foo@gmail.com foo@wizmail.com

chii 8y ago
and so if you set up your email filters right, you can find out who is doing this sort sort of "hacking" to get your real email address. What you do afterwards is up to you.
- easytiger 8y ago
  By definition, if someone is offloading your data to a 3rd party and they sanitise the addrs, then you can't tell.