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I know at least one person who has their own personal family domain set up so that his family members can just create new email addresses specific to the vendor
by itronitron 6y ago
I know at least one person who has their own personal family domain set up so that his family members can just create new email addresses specific to the vendor when shopping online (for example, 'amazon@familyrobinson.com' and 'bestbuy@familyrobinson.com' ). Then all their shopping emails just get routed to his domain. Being able to track which company leaked or sold an email address seems like another benefit in addition to catching all the marketing emails.
- armedpacifist 6y agoGmail has this feature baked in. Append a + sign to the username and then append any string you want, ie. username+ycombinator@gmail.com. It will forward these mails to your regular email address. I started doing this for the exact same reason as mentioned above, but you can obviously do more than just creating honeypots. Also you have to ignore the fact that it's Google...
- zaik 6y agoThere already exists at least one popular js validation framework which removes Gmail (and others) subaddresses per default in its "normalizeEmail" method: https://github.com/validatorjs/validator.js/blob/master/src/lib/normalizeEmail.js https://github.com/validatorjs/validator.js/blob/master/src/...
- austinjp 6y agoI do this. A small annoyance can crop up when trying to log in to a service with your + modified email address. Hmmm, what did I append after the plus? If you can't remember that, you can't use the "forgot my password" function either :) Usually soluble, but irritating.