SEO has essentially destroyed search engines, what are some very useful websites that you might not get given by Google?

  • @rappo
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    51 year ago

    you can also just buy your own domain and set it up your gmail/whatever as the catchall, then use [email protected]

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      21 year ago

      Last I saw, Google charges for this. More than this guy’s service.

      Also, it seems like his service is about automatically having username-category email addresses. Definitely not hard to replicate, but it circumvents the common blocking of plus-signs in email addresses you see nowadays. And while not hard, it’s a bit less trivial to catch any old email with a dash in it and “magically” convert it to a category in the main inbox.

      • @rappo
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        41 year ago

        Google doesn’t even factor into this. Go to your registrar of choice (namecheap, etc), buy a domain, and setup that domain to forward all emails to your email address.

        So if you have [email protected] and you just bought abraxas.me, in namecheap you can setup *@abraxas.me to go to your gmail account, and then sign up for sites using [email protected] you want. There’s no + or - involved, use any word you want. Signing up for lemmy.world? [email protected] will go right to your gmail (or whatever email you use)

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          21 year ago

          Fair point. That is free. I guess it would boil down to what the mail categorization would look like in this guy’s service. I will say I thought it was odd that it isn’t just mail middleware with the guy struggling with having to build his IMAP in node.js.

          • @rappo
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            21 year ago

            indeed. It comes in as [email protected], so not only can you easily filter/label them, but you can immediately tell who had a security breach and/or sold your email.