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Comment · 2 years ago
Got it, that makes more sense and could actually make your inbox more private as the email provider won't be able to snoop into your emails to gather data to "make your ads more personalized".

I'll look into this now that it makes more sense, thanks for the advice!

Comment · 2 years ago
Can you give me an example of who would be sending you emails with PGP though to your disposable email address and why?
Comment · 2 years ago
Thanks for the advice and I'll look into supporting email forwarding, but I'm not sure why users would need PGP.
Comment · 2 years ago
Exactly, that's the site I had in mind although I'm pretty sure it had another name before (could perhaps also be the reason to why I didn't find it in the first place).
Comment · 2 years ago
Got it, this could perhaps work and the downside would however be that the user wouldn't have complete control over the domain, unless DNS control is provided and before I can say the word, I'd be a domain name registrar.

I think it's cool idea though and I might give this a shot, thanks for the idea and if I do implement this then feel free to contact me through the form and I'll set "lifetime" account up for you!

Comment · 2 years ago
If I'm not misunderstanding you, the same should go for aliases as they will be flagged as disposable addresses as well. I also noticed that Addy allows users to send emails through it, which is a risky process as it requires close monitoring so spam isn't sent out through the service.

I will take a closer look at this and see if it's possible to improve it in some way.

Thanks for the kind words also and the same to you! =)

Comment · 2 years ago
I think that's for the small players though as this should be pretty slow, expensive and have the risk of the "employees" stealing the data (the business they are in is practically stealing so I don't think they have high morals).
Comment · 2 years ago
I think that completely depends on what the service is, but I don't think users would have anything against paying a few dollars if they find the service valuable, especially now when there are so many payment processors available.

Best of luck with the service also!

Comment · 2 years ago
I'd rather fill out a captcha when I sign up than having to drag emails to spam on a daily basis so I can find emails that are actually important.
Comment · 2 years ago
There are plenty just like there are IP lists for VPNs.

Feel free to share a link to your service as I'd love to check it out and best of luck running it also!

Comment · 2 years ago
Right, that actually sounds like a decent idea and since the users would then have verified themselves with their payment details, it would reduce the risk of abuse.
Comment · 2 years ago
That's what I would assume most of them are doing, yes.

In this day and age I don't understand why they wouldn't be able to just use a headless browser instead of doing it manually - has labor really become this cheap?

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