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It’s trivial to figure out main gmail address?

• cubesnooper 4y ago
  It’s almost as trivial with this format too, at least to guess what address is used for other services, though it has a strong advantage over using ‘+’ in GMail in that nothing will try this automatically. It’s hard to believe anyone would intentionally try to guess a different service’s email to spam to it, but even so in my setup I prefer to eliminate this possibility completely by adding a random number to the service name: experian12322@example.com, and so on, with no catchall for invalid addresses. So far the most spam I’ve gotten has been to the address I used for Amazon (probably leaked by a third‐party seller there).
  • binwiederhier 4y ago
    > It’s almost as trivial with this format too I mean you can pick any format you want before the "@", but yeah my format is trivial. Nobody has tried to do it automatically yet though, as far as I can tell.
    • SalimoS 4y ago
      I remember Starzplay didn’t accept the + in my email when I tried it (technically I signed up but couldn’t login anymore )