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Oh, excellent! Having been on the end of someone flooding a service with tens of thousands of autogenerated Gmail accounts. And if you don’t want to share your
by kstrauser 5mo ago
Oh, excellent! Having been on the end of someone flooding a service with tens of thousands of autogenerated Gmail accounts.
And if you don’t want to share your phone number with Google, which I totally respect, there are a zillion other email providers. Contrary to popular perception, Gmail != email.
- negura 5mo agomost major platforms reject email addresses that are not from major providers. for example creating a deepseek account asks to use a "global provider" and gives GMail as an example. github recently rejected @proton.me. discord does this as well etc
- kstrauser 5mo agoI’ve never, ever, not once, been blocked from registering because I was using a self-hosted domain. I’ve seen plenty of services that block anonymizers, typically with the explanation that they were getting too much spam from there.
- negura 5mo agoyour claim wasn't that Gmail != anonymizers. your claim was that Gmail != email