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This makes me ๐Ÿ˜ญ

UPDATE: Thanks @[email protected] 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.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 96 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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.

[โ€“] [email protected] 46 points 1 year ago (5 children)

I wonder what happens when they find out that you can do [email protected]

[โ€“] [email protected] 27 points 1 year ago (1 children)

they seem to have it "covered"

[โ€“] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago

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

[โ€“] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

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.

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)
[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Looks like you can even do this with iCloud accounts. They only let you have 3 at a time, but you can delete them whenever and create more as needed.

https://support.apple.com/guide/icloud/add-and-manage-email-aliases-mm6b1a490a/icloud

[โ€“] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago

Advertisers aren't interested in your privacy. Simple as.