this post was submitted on 27 Feb 2024
89 points (92.4% liked)

Privacy

36385 readers
481 users here now

A place to discuss privacy and freedom in the digital world.

Privacy has become a very important issue in modern society, with companies and governments constantly abusing their power, more and more people are waking up to the importance of digital privacy.

In this community everyone is welcome to post links and discuss topics related to privacy.

Some Rules

Related communities

much thanks to @gary_host_laptop for the logo design :)

founded 5 years ago
MODERATORS
 

Github dislikes email "aliases" so much that they will shadow ban your otherwise normal activities for months, and once flagged, support will request not only a "valid" email domain but also that you remove the "alias" email from the account completely.

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] al4s@feddit.de 9 points 1 year ago (3 children)

What do you mean by email aliases?

[–] backhdlp@iusearchlinux.fyi 11 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Basically another email address that forwards everything to your main email.

[–] MonkderZweite@feddit.ch 7 points 1 year ago (3 children)

So a redirect instead of alias? E-mail alias is the address+alias@... thing.

[–] pineapplelover@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Yeah let's say you got joe@protonmail.com, on simplelogin you can make a joe123@aleeas.com and now sign up for services using aleeas with those emails being forwarded to your protonmail

Here's an illustration

https://simplelogin.io/images/hero.svg

https://simplelogin.io/

[–] MonkderZweite@feddit.ch 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What was this feature called again... basically linking, right?

[–] joyjoy@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I thought that was a gmail specific thing.

[–] BreakDecks@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

It is, an email alias is a redirect. They've just been calling plus codes aliases and didn't know they were mixed up.

[–] Pantherina@feddit.de 1 points 1 year ago

Thats an extension

[–] Lojcs@lemm.ee 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

How would they even detect that? Blacklist common alias providers?

[–] b763e622@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I dont think so. I get my self hosted aliases banned. They must read the dkim/spf/dmarc or other types of headers against a base of mainstream email providers

[–] Lojcs@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Wouldn't that ban self hosted email period?

[–] b763e622@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

Depends on what header they read and how