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Unfortunately, many companies incorrectly validate e-mail addresses. Sometimes you aren't allowed to register and sometimes you are able to register but then some things don't work.
Yes I must say I've only had about two that would not register a plus address. Most others are just sending and then accepting a OTP response. Plus addresses are also working with my own domain e-mail.
I use aliases on my own domain. For example, for lemmy I might use lemmy@mydomain.com or for my bank i use mybanksname@mydomain.com. Everything goes to the same inbox. There have been a couple times with job applications where I've had to reply and then they find out I'm not really indeed@mydomain.com but I guess I could set that account up if I feel the need.
If you register your domain with njalla (which are also amazing for privacy and generally have great no bullshit dns management) you get a domain-wide mail forward with that, it's a simple setting you can just toggle. Included in the 15/year (depending on your TLD) domain registration
I used to work for a product comparison company (think finance and insurance). We used to save the email address as typed for login and also with everything after the plus removed separately. For Gmail and certain other large providers, we also stripped out any dots e.g. a.j.uniquename@gmail.com became ajuniquename@gmail.com.
Now you can tell us who you worked for, so we can be sure to avoid them...
I'd rather not dox myself. They're not a huge company. I promise you that this is not something uncommon.
Why?
Sorry, I thought the rest was implied. Because the company also sold user data (and stated that in the T&C's). The industry is very aware of email aliases and so it is more valuable to have sanitized data.
Most data harvesting companies filter out anything after the plus sign. Google made this easy for a reason.
It's just easier to have an email service that allows multiple aliases.
I use Mozilla Relay. Thaz way i can also instantly block all mail to the compromised address
I use cloudflare catchall emsil on one of my domains and have an espanso script which generates a unique email when I type :email
this post was submitted on 23 Nov 2022
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