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I use Fastmail for that and without noticing, I'm to 32 "fake" addresses. Got banned by EA for buying and playing a game with an account on such an address.

holigot 3y ago
You got banned while using a Fastmail address? That's hard.
_nalply 3y ago
Hah, that's dystopian. Taking precautions and being punished for it.
- wodenokoto 3y ago
  One man’s precautions are another man’s dataminig opportunity loss …
  - gruez 3y ago
    If your concern is datamining, then you should be far more concerned about the billing info (which can't be faked) than the email.
    - htrp 3y ago
      with the state of most data mining programs out there, moving addresses will destroy any ability to link you.
      - gruez 3y ago
        Right but changing your billing address/credit card number is still way much harder than creating a new gmail/outlook account.
    - a_dabbler 3y ago
      FYI you can often set the billing address info to whatever you want for a lot of purchases, there's no mechanism to validate it.
      - gruez 3y ago
        >there's no mechanism to validate it. Why would you spread falsehoods like that? https://stripe.com/resources/more/what-is-address-verification-service https://stripe.com/resources/more/what-is-address-verificati...
        a_dabbler 3y ago
        "Businesses in the United States, Canada and the United Kingdom use AVS" I don't live in any of these countries. Even so it's more cost for business to use AVS, most won't. The likes of my mobile phone credit or Steam or Spotify or cloud services don't use any sort of address validation
  - callalex 3y ago
    For EA it is less about datamining and more about flagging behavior that matches that of a cheater evading a ban. Cheaters reduce the fun, and therefore value, of a game.
    - kioleanu 3y ago
      I only own one game and it's offline, so there's that
ajyey 3y ago
I used masked emails for almost everything and thankfully haven’t run into any issues like this

holigot 3y ago

You got banned while using a Fastmail address? That's hard.

_nalply 3y ago

Hah, that's dystopian. Taking precautions and being punished for it.

wodenokoto 3y ago
One man’s precautions are another man’s dataminig opportunity loss …
- gruez 3y ago
  If your concern is datamining, then you should be far more concerned about the billing info (which can't be faked) than the email.
  - htrp 3y ago
    with the state of most data mining programs out there, moving addresses will destroy any ability to link you.
    - gruez 3y ago
      Right but changing your billing address/credit card number is still way much harder than creating a new gmail/outlook account.
  - a_dabbler 3y ago
    FYI you can often set the billing address info to whatever you want for a lot of purchases, there's no mechanism to validate it.
    - gruez 3y ago
      >there's no mechanism to validate it. Why would you spread falsehoods like that? https://stripe.com/resources/more/what-is-address-verification-service https://stripe.com/resources/more/what-is-address-verificati...
      - a_dabbler 3y ago
        "Businesses in the United States, Canada and the United Kingdom use AVS" I don't live in any of these countries. Even so it's more cost for business to use AVS, most won't. The likes of my mobile phone credit or Steam or Spotify or cloud services don't use any sort of address validation
- callalex 3y ago
  For EA it is less about datamining and more about flagging behavior that matches that of a cheater evading a ban. Cheaters reduce the fun, and therefore value, of a game.
  - kioleanu 3y ago
    I only own one game and it's offline, so there's that

ajyey 3y ago

I used masked emails for almost everything and thankfully haven’t run into any issues like this