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[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago (4 children)

How's this different from plus aliases?

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 months ago

Just chiming in, if you’re using + aliases for privacy some people can just remove the plus and see your email

For example if you sign up with [email protected] the service can remove everything between the + and the @ and see your real email is [email protected]

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 months ago (1 children)

It kinda isn't, however I found that some websites refuse to acknowledge that plusses are valid. I see this one uses dashes which might have a similar issue. Only thing I think is universally accepted are periods

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I haven’t found any place that doesn’t accept a dash.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

As a kid I had an email address that started with a dash. Back then I regularly encountered websites that flagged it as invalid (but only if it started with it)

But then again, that was almost 25 years ago

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

It is plus aliases*. It’s got additional features for them that other providers don’t have though. Like for each label (alias) you can toggle whether to get notifications, mark as unread, screen new senders, and show them in the “aggbox”. The aggbox is like an inbox, but since you don’t ever use your “bare address”, it just shows the labels you want. Your bare address autoresponds with a list of your public addresses.

* It’s technically subaddressing, using either a dash or a plus as a delimiter.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

From what I can tell, not much. They use dashes "-" instead of pluses "+".

But neither of these two options provide you with much privacy. Plus addresses, as others have pointed out, can be automatically stripped (just delete everything after the plus sign) and you get the real email behind it.

This service specifically I dont know the details, but it seems there is a unique prefix per user, but no "real email". So for instance if you use gmail you can have "[email protected]" as your real email. You then use "[email protected]" for your lemmy account. If that email gets leaked out somehow, people can easily tell your real email address is "[email protected]"

This service seems to do something very similar with the difference there is no base email, so there isnt a "[email protected]", there will only be "[email protected]". It is worth pointing out you might still be tracked because all your emails will be prefixed with "sunny". So although spammers wont be able to figure out your real email address they can just try something like "[email protected]", and if multiple of your addresses leak it will be easy to link them all up to the same person.

This also creates A LOT of lock in. Because if the service shuts down you now have dozens of services for which you don't have means to access the emails anymore.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Thank you for the feedback. These are all really good points that I’d like to address.

The vendor lock in part I agree is very important. I’m working on adding support for custom domains, which would let you migrate to another provider if Port87 ends up not working for you.

Regarding the privacy part, a long term goal is to let you create private aliases for your labels that are randomized addresses on a different domain. I haven’t started working on that yet, and supporting enterprise features will take priority.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

Thats really nice. I appreciate your concerns with privacy and user experience!

Ill be sure to keep my eyes on the project