I like to try websites out before tying my identity to them. How do you do it? Simplelogin? I honestly won’t manually make a new gmail for every new website I try and I to want the option to see what emails I get.

  • capital
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    48 months ago

    I’m still not clear on the value proposition of simplelogin.

    I seem to get the same thing with a domain and a catch all address.

    • Atemu
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      18 months ago

      How do you reply to emails to your catch-all?

      • capital
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        8 months ago

        Hit reply.

        This is why I just moved from protonmail to Fastmail. With Fastmail I can send from arbitrary addresses using my domain. Why it’s not that simple with proton is beyond me and now that I’ve tested everything with Fastmail these past few weeks, I see it’s a choice.

        I almost signed up for simplelogin but realized I was being sold something that should just be included. Plus setup was convoluted as fuck.

        Meanwhile Fastmail is intuitive so far.

        • @[email protected]
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          58 months ago

          But in some cases you don’t want to use arbitrary addresses, but the exact same that was used to send you an e-mail. For me this is necessary and Simplelogin hides my real e-mail address. Additionally, I can with ease deactivate addresses and minimize spam by a lot.

          • capital
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            8 months ago

            I can reply from ANY address from my domain including the exact one that was used to send me an email.

            I can “deactivate addresses” by sending messages to a particular address straight to trash with rules.

            Edit: turns out Fastmail has a masked addresses feature built in, separate from a catch-all. It’s basically simplelogin built in, if you want to enable it. Proton is looking more and more overpriced.

          • capital
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            18 months ago

            If I were a professional spammer, the first thing I’d do to clean the address list I have is to strip out plus addresses. It’s a simple regex.

            On how to filter, I can send any address straight to the trash apparently just like simplelogin. I’ll know who sold or leaked my info because it’s in Bitwarden and I can just search my vault to see who I handed that particular address to.