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Some services recognize this and do not allow email "aliases." One reason is that it essentially would allow you to sign up for an endless number of trials with
by shanecleveland 6y ago
Some services recognize this and do not allow email "aliases." One reason is that it essentially would allow you to sign up for an endless number of trials with the same email account.
- justusthane 6y agoThe level-up for this trick is if you have your own domain, and a provider that lets you use a wildcard alias (Fastmail, for one), you can use anything@yourdomain.com. On the fly. No way to block that!
- shanecleveland 6y agoI like that idea. I use Fastmail, in fact. So I could use hn@yourdomain.com or any address specific to a service. I guess the risk would be potentially not remembering that was done or exactly what was used. Also, could keep you locked into Fastmail or limited to providers who have this same feature.
- saagarjha 6y agoLuckily, there's a lot of providers that offer this :)
- Sohcahtoa82 6y agoI did that for a while, and then my provider decided that people using catch-all e-mail addresses were causing their systems to store too much spam and stopped letting people use them. That left me in a slight bind as I had used well over 50 different e-mail addresses. I had switched to Gmail as my primary e-mail address, but hadn't bothered changing my accounts. Luckily, they allowed a very easy way to create forwarding addresses and basically set it up to forward 50+ addresses to one.