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

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (5 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (4 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (3 children)

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)

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

Are you able to differentiate between emails as they come in? E.g., seeing an email was sent to [email protected] vs [email protected]?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 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.

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