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I was unable to provide my email address for a retail rewards program last week because the input field for the domain was a dropdown in their POS. Not the TLD,
by moojd 5y ago
I was unable to provide my email address for a retail rewards program last week because the input field for the domain was a dropdown in their POS. Not the TLD, the entire part of the email after '@'!
- StavrosK 5y agoJeez, wow. How many domains were in that box?
- bassdropvroom 5y ago"There are other emails besides gmail and hotmail? Woah!" - the person who thought that was a good idea, probably.
- sellyme 5y agoThere is absolutely no way that someone who thought building a dropdown for email domain name is a good idea wasn't putting AOL and Yahoo! as the first two options.
- jacobkg 5y agoYes this is terrible. On the other hand, if your goal is to prevent people from signing up using disposable domains, the blacklist approach (which I have tried before) is a never ending game of whack a mole. Sounds like this was in person at store though which is extra weird because seems unlikely that scammers would be trying to sign up en masse at a physical location (unlike if the form is connected to the internet)
- skhr0680 5y agoUntil about a decade ago, this was extremely common in Japan. RIP mobile email, another victim of smartphones in general and the iPhone in particular