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You can also append “+whatever” to the username part of your gmail address and filter it that way. E.g. johndoe+mailinglist@gmail.com Unfortunately some servi
by justusthane 6y ago
You can also append “+whatever” to the username part of your gmail address and filter it that way.
E.g. johndoe+mailinglist@gmail.com
Unfortunately some services won’t accept that as a valid address.
- godelski 6y agoOthers strip it too
- soulofmischief 6y agoAnd most email scrapers / aggregators these days also ignore the + and whatever comes after.
- jonpurdy 6y agoI wrote about this issue on my blog. Basically just using email aliases on a custom domain to enable per-provider filtering, and deletion of the alias if they ignore unsubscribe requests or get hacked. https://jonpurdy.com/2020/06/using-email-aliasing-to-detect-hacks-and-protect-your-privacy/ https://jonpurdy.com/2020/06/using-email-aliasing-to-detect-...
- gorbachev 6y agoI use this all the time, everywhere I can. The worst example of "we know what are valid email addresses better than anyone" case was when adidas.com decided that they'd redesign their registration flow and in the process disabled logins with "invalid" email addresses when they previously had accepted registrations and logins with email addresses tagged with + for years. That was genius.