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Will be added to the list of domains people cannot use to sign up for accounts. In my experience, this only works on small sites.
by allendoerfer 6y ago
Will be added to the list of domains people cannot use to sign up for accounts. In my experience, this only works on small sites.
- cmeacham98 6y agoIn my experience it is the other way around. Big name websites generally have enough users that email "just works". Smaller websites are more likely to use misguided measures such as a bad email validating regex (hello to anyone with a non-standard TLD!), only allowing gmail, or blacklisting domains like these.
- lxgr 6y ago+1, and ironically I remember seeing both "must use Gmail" and "must not use Gmail" in the past... The only correct to validate email addresses is to just send a message there and see if the user can click the confirmation link. Chances are that would be the next step in any signup flow anyway, so why introduce this artificial middle step of "validating the email address"?
- tutfbhuf 6y agoOne time email domains and email forward services are usually blocked, there are very long block lists for such domains. From my personal experience it is best to have a secondary email account on a provider that is usually not blocked (like gmail), to keep your primary email account clean.
- throwaway123x2 6y agoI have a .family TLD as my primary address that gets refused because of bad regex half the time and consigned to spam the other half :(
- martin_a 6y ago> use misguided measures such as a bad email validating regex Ever heard of Magento? They have that built in, at least in version 1. But it's a fixed list with "valid TLDs", anything not on that is not accepted when registering. Feels strange, when you can't register on your own shop...
- organsnyder 6y agoI use a .dev domain for my main email address, and I occasionally encounter sites that don't accept it as valid. Even worse, sometimes I could create an account but then something would be broken, such as when I could log in to Best Buy via their mobile app, but not their website (or vice-versa—I can't remember for sure). I'm assuming I get hit both by incomplete whitelists and ill-advised blacklists.
- lxgr 6y agoI've always been extremely annoyed by these attempts to "detect fake email addresses/accounts". People can have more than one email address, so if your goal is "one account/offer/trial membership per real person", email ain't the way to achieve that, period. Even worse are sites that disallow registering via "freemail providers" and require you to "use your ISPs or employer's". (Haven't seen this one in a while, but it definitely used to be a thing.)
- notsureaboutpg 6y agoThe goal isn't to have one account/offer/trial per person, the goal is to ward off bots and spammers who are going to misuse your service. Since they know they are doing that and they know they could be held liable for what they do, they use sketchy disposable email addresses. My sites and apps have a blacklist and we don't allow email accounts from those. It's just me running this thing. If I had the security and engineering workforce of even a mid-sized tech company, I wouldn't have to do this. Alas.
- asiachick 6y agoAgreed. Sites will just say, "relay.firefox.com" email address are not allowed. By definition they know it's not your real email address
- r2b2 6y agoOnly if Firefox makes it easy and free to create unlimited addresses and/or disposable address. I use owlmail.io for hundreds of accounts (major sites included) and haven't had an issue.