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That can't be avoided short of having a mail service with plentiful full aliases on a shared domain. They could just use the heuristic that unless you're at one
by dale_glass 4y ago
That can't be avoided short of having a mail service with plentiful full aliases on a shared domain. They could just use the heuristic that unless you're at one of the well known email providers like Gmail, your domain name might be personal and therefore count as part of your global identity, without even considering what comes before the @.
So it doesn't really matter much whether I go with amazon@example.com, or john.random@example.com.
To deal with that for good you'd need a pretty large set of domain names to use for this purpose.
- fluidcruft 4y agoThere are already a growing number of services that won't even allow you to sign up unless you have an email at one of the large services. I never noticed until I started using my personal domain to separate work/personal after changing jobs recently.
- catiopatio 4y agoWhat are some examples? I’ve been using my own domain since the late 90s, and I’ve never run into this.
- MandieD 4y agoWhen I tried signing up for the SNL app a few years ago with snlnbc@[mydomain.com], and then [randomnickname]@[mydomain.com], it failed, but then worked with a GMail address. Which is all kinds of ironic, because I'm old enough to remember when free emails like hotmail.com and gmail.com were rejected by a lot of sites!
- et-al 4y agoFrom personal experience, "new" Flickr makes it difficult to signup when you use a personal domain versus one of the top 10 known email providers.
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