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The former would seem ineffective, surely anyone buying such a dataset would just remove the "+___" part in emails that have them?
by maeil 2y ago
The former would seem ineffective, surely anyone buying such a dataset would just remove the "+___" part in emails that have them?
- iamacyborg 2y agoWhy would they bother?
- InvertedRhodium 2y agoTo limit evidence of culpability in the event of a data leak exactly like the one we’re discussing.
- iamacyborg 2y agoWhy would the hacker care about that?
- daedalus_j 2y agoBecause they assume you've set name+spam@gmail.com to be filtered directly to spam, and they can easily evade those filters by removing the ±spam part. Big companies do this. I have signed up for things using a +filter email address, only to receive the emails from that company that is signed up to get at my plane address, without the +filter part.
- mulmen 2y agoBecause the overwhelming number of people with “+” in their email address are unlikely to click on spam.