This makes me 😭
UPDATE: Thanks @nekusoul@lemmy.nekusoul.de for this update: The issue has now been commented on and was closed by the maintainer, where they explained why those blocks would be nonsense. But it appears the OP wants to still talk with maintainer privately about it.
That’s…a good portion of the free email providers on the planet. Even if companies are using this list as a filter for signups, it’s only going to be for a limited time.
Companies want new accounts. They don’t mind very much if those accounts are fake - big numbers get investor attention. It only takes a handful of support cases with “I tried to register but it says my email address isn’t allowed” before the C-suite makes it clear to IT that this filter is no longer in sync with the corporate strategy.
I can actually well imagine them responding to use a Gmail or short list of major domains. Normies are normal and the companies want an email they can link to all the other data on the web.
What all of you fail to realize is that it’s literally the point of the project. To filter those “emails” that value privacy. Just like everyone has the right to use those privacy prioritized emails, website operators have a right to know. That is a 1:1 copy of the description of the project.
Ironically I’m paying for proton because the free services suck.
Would it help if they could check if the account is older than one month?
I guess this is why spamgourmet became almost unusable in recent years. It’s a pity because the service is effective at blocking spam but I can imagine there is abuse potential.
Honestly, the more these one time accounts try to convince me to remove protonmail and simplelogin, the more I see how much it’s needed to block them. It’s like the marketing team is desperately trying to keep their services from being rightfully flagged and it just makes me want to block them even more. I do hope they won’t cloud your judgement @7c , as these services are used for temp emails by all definitions. If you have any questions you may always ask me from the conversation we have started :)
Shit like this is what makes me want to pull my hair out at night
Yea, I guess it’s impossible to make burner gmail accou ts too…
A whole new account? gasp
Yeah, that’s obviously impossible because that would require you to pick a different username.
That was a fun read.
Funny, considering I’ve moved over to a paid proton account as my primary email, and my former primary email/Gmail account, with its ability to instantly become infinitely many disposable email addresses, is now used as exactly that. This same procedure occured many years ago, when I made my yahoo email into the disposable junk mail home, and my shiny new Gmail became my primary. I wonder how many years it be until proton becomes my disposable, and some as-of-yet to be created service becomes my new primary email. Or maybe email will finally be dead by then, and we’ll use something else entirely.
I will say, even after all of these years, and using the living shit out of my Gmail account in many, many places, I still only get two or three spam emails at most during the entire year.
No, you very likely get way more than that, they’re just filtered out.
This. I get tons, but almost none of them actually hit my inbox.
Wouldn’t OP see them in the Spam folder? If they say they get 2 spam messages they probably mean that.
Yep, mail to the spam folder is what I mean.
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Same, gmail now means garbage mail and only acts as a filter for my Protonmail now.
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I’m confused. Who even uses FakeFilter? And whatever websites do use it, most people probably won’t use anyway lol
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OK simplelogin you can make an argument there, very stupid one though.
But protonmail and tutanota, wtf ?!?
Just because an email provider is privacy focused and offers custom aliases means all it’s emails are spam ?
Fuck this shit.
I wonder what happens when they find out that you can do my.name+alias@gmail.com
To be fair that’s quite easy to check with a simple regex, you can see that in many services that have cached up to that.
\+[^@]*
they seem to have it “covered”
on both his issues he tries to contact the author of the repo to discuss some change that’s too sensitive to talk about openly, lol
Advertisers aren’t interested in your privacy. Simple as.
Thanks for adding an update to your post OP. Good to know cool heads prevailed!
Truly a sad day for poppy heads
I know I gotta receive some slack for this, actually all my temps emails are outlook ones, they do not require a phone number and I can redirect all traffic to my main one easily and sort it there with rules.
That’s why I have setup a custom domain and catch all so I can create aliases on the fly. Was huge fan of simplelogin until I did a though experiment about ditching proton mail. I will not pay for email aliases.
Duck duck go offers this service for free, they will forward to your regular email. Provided the generated addresses are random.
I did the exact same thing.
When I saw Fastmail with aliasing features (beyond just using a catch-all with my domain) included in their $30/yr plan I couldn’t switch fast enough.
I guess Proton thinks they can rest on their name (which, admittedly, is a good one). But why pay for simplelogin + Proton when others do exactly what I need?
I am not sure I understood your comment. I am using protonmail (ultimate) and they do have free simplelogin integration (I think proton bought SL). Definitely catchall is my way to go for reputable sites, but SL is great for trash “register once” sites so that I don’t even disclose my domain!
Using a simplemail means you are bound to a provider, in this case ProtonMail.If you setup a custom domain you can ditch ProtonMail/Simplelogin duo domains and switch to a different provider whenever you want.
This is the way. I finally got around to setting this up a few months back.
Could you please share the steps you took for this? I have an inkling , but not sure how to proceed. I m thinking of learning self hosting too, but can’t right now due to reasons.
I bought the domain, set required domain records as per protonmail docs, waited for verification to complete and enabled catch-all thingy.
Do keep in mind, it seems like protonmail is considered a whitelisted domain in the eyes of lead that’s running that project. I say this because if you go under the issues page of it and then select the whitelist issue which is the issue that he uses to keep track of every domain that will not be blacklisted, protonmail appears there. That being said the others don’t appear.
I love how dense OP was that he didn’t even acknowledge the white-list and was acting like he was the authority (or the sheriff) on this topic, with nothing to back him up whatsoever.
Hey make sure to get me in the next screenshot!
