What we really need is instead of an 'unsubscribe' button, a 'single combat' button where when we press it we get to fight the CEO of the spamming company 1 on 1
Modern spammers can probably just detect everything after the plus, remove it, and send it to your standard email address. Not really that hard to bypass
Hey ppl, I'm a retired computer/IT person, Yet I still find Meta spy club so informative and straight forward. Thanks for your advise and helping the people...........Great work and love watching.
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It just kept glitching on me when I tried this video tutorial so firstly I would say thank you for the video and secondly, thank you Dale Valskov meeting you was a blessing in disguise keep up with the good work I'm sure a lot of people will be needing your assistance iin the nearest future after seeing this
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Some web apps can use validation to prevent you from inputting +, but asides that, using + gives other advantage like signing up to a service several times with the same email, can be useful for unlimited free trials offer
I have used this for a while and I have had quite a bit of spam. A few years ago, we had the new GDPR rules, and now I can roll up to a company's legal department, tell them "you sold my email address, I know because of the email plus system, pay me money" and I got paid every. single. time. The worst offender so far is Facebook.
@@kataseiko China is based af then. Every country that does not copy and apply the GDPR in its territory is corrupt and works against its own citizens. Simple as that.
Account of mine also got hacked and I followed the method as explained in this video but I'm unable to proceed after recording the selfie video. Thank you Dale Valskov . It brings me immense joy to witness his name appearing frequently in comments, a clear indication of the commendable work he’s been doing.
In my case, I had no image of myself on it which clearly stated I am a step behind. Dale Valskov was God’s sent. I appreciate your tireless efforts in assisting me with the account recovery. Your professionalism and commitment to finding a solution were evident at every step. Thank you for making the process efficient and effective.
Kudos to you, Dale Valskov for your extraordinary dedication and hard work in helping me recover my account. Your efforts are truly commendable, and I encourage you to maintain this exceptional standard as you embark on future endeavors. The path ahead is filled with promise for someone of your caliber
Kindly let me to express my sincere gratitude for the exceptional support and dedication Dale Valskov provided in helping me with business account. Your willingness to go above and beyond, investing additional time and effort, has been invaluable to me. The meticulous attention to detail and unwavering commitment you demonstrated throughout this process is truly commendable. Thank you from the bottom of my heart for your outstanding assistance.
I'm literally overwhelmed, You are a blessing to the world. I can't thank you enough Dale Valskov for helping me with my account recovery. My prayers will always be with you and your team. Keep it up guys. Love from Maldives. There are many people out there I pray everybody get help.
I think you’ve missed the most important detail regarding the “+” email identifier in my opinion. For me the biggest benefit is using it to parse through login credentials exposed via breached data sets; this allows us to trace through which sites/services have been compromised. Doing this we’ve been able to harden our own endpoints against clients email addresses / credentials that have been compromised and even identified 4 breaches prior to the public being notified.
There are other aliasing like SimpleLogin (you can read more about this) but there are some companies that understand this alternative type of aliasing which blocks user from signing up.
You can put periods within characters in your email address and it will still allow emails thru, though you'll have to remember which places you put those periods in for Edit: Found out today this seems to only work with Gmail
alternatively if it's for a website you won't use often you can use websites like temp mail. that give you an email that lasts 10 minutes, doesn't work on all websites because of spam protection obviously but can help bypass "you need an account to read our clickbait.".
I've used the "." trick but not the "+" trick. I run my own domain and give everyone a different email address. I use their name, date, and a random verification string so the addresses can't be reverse engineered.
@@ToroNero That's a great question. I've been doing this for years now and haven't caught any. I suspect the reason is my spam filter. Out of curiosity I'll look through my spam and see what email addresses are being used.
@@typeins It's crazy because I can't find any instances of my email address being sold or shared accept one instance I approved. They only shared the address with the partners I approved so that's fine. The bulk of the spam email I'm getting are addressed to decade and decades old(one I've had for at least 25 years) addresses that were listed as contacts for my domain names at one time. That was publicly searchable information. I did find several legitimate emails in my spam folder though. At this point I might be better off without a spam filter. My domain contact information is private now so I can update those email addresses and filter anything addressed to those old email addresses. If this proved anything to me it's that the problem isn't so bad anymore. I'll continue to do things the same way though because someone will eventually mess up and I want to know who.
Even though the RFC allows a plus sign in an email address, I find that many companies consider it invalid. It’s very obnoxious for them to unilaterally decide what’s allowed in an email address.
Unless you're dealing with money or something important, just use a trash email or even a temp email service if you only need to activate something once and don't care about using that account in the future.
it does allow you if it's a company with a good public reputation to contact them and tell them that they either sold the data without your consent - big no-no in EU thanx to GDPR - , some of their "trusted parties" aren't following the rules they set out in the privacy-agreement or that they have a databreach which they didn't knew about yet. yes, i have had all 3 happen to me. and i caught them all thanks to a similar trick using unique-per-requester mailaddresses with a personal domainname and a catch-all mailbox.
it not being worth sueing them, doesn't mean you can't sue them. however if they break the law, or not follow the agreements both them and you agreed on, you could. too bad, all those in "the land of the free", don't have the freedom of enjoying any privacy online.
Apple’s “hide my email” for iCloud email is much better and easier. It randomly creates an email address that forwards to your main email. You can delete it anytime. Great for trials, temporary accounts, or just anything that isn’t critical.
this is my biggest frustration. Ive used this for years but lots of places I've tried don't consider a + a valid symbol in an email. Some places dont even recognize other TLDs as valid.
There isn't a spammer on the planet that doesn't strip these from email addresses prior to sending. It hasn't been a useful tip in almost a decade now.
You vastly overestimate how much spam companies care. So someone they're spamming knows where they bought it from...so? Spamming, like scamming, is targeted at the lowest common denominator. Its not that they *can't* - they're not going to put in work to bypass your avoidance or information gathering because they literally dont care
Except that many companies mark it as an invalid email if you have a + in there and thus won't allow you to use their site if you do that, and even if they didn't the company could still run a program to parse out the + and everything between it and the @, so really the only guaranteed way is to set up your own email service, create a bunch of individual accts for everything, and then have them forward everything to your main email inbox.
I received the most spam when I used the phish button on my email accounts to report the spam. Suddenly I started receiving 3 x the spam and it hadn’t stopped. How unusual eh?
I have experienced the same uptick after starting to report phishing attempts. Seems email providers have made ineffectual efforts to curb it so rather than reporting them I go into the trenches and investigate the abuse myself. Then when I do report it, instead of a paragraph they get an entire encyclopedia to sift through.
The reason for that is that the spammers can see if you interacted with their message. Its will tell them if you clicked on, opened, read, deleted, reported their message. Then they have automated response, oh we have a person interacting here and send more. I use the ignore conversation button on outlook and it seems to work without increasing spam
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Then the spammers remove +servicename and boom. You don’t know who sent it anymore lol Hell, Google will probably remove it for them when they sell it to third parties 😂
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Use this wisely. I once used this method to sign up on a government website. It failed to recognize this email after sign up and kept giving me an error saying: "incorrect email" because of the+ i assumed. So yeah... Use this wisely.
I use it for a long time and yes I caught one company, where ppl took over data from old company to new company, which in EU is also not allowed without consent.
Here is a similar tip. You can put a dot anywhere your Email address and whatever you're signing up for will thank its a different Email but will still go to your inbox. Also helpful to let you know who sold your data.
That hack isn’t as good as it sounds. The +whatever suffix can simply be dropped spamming you on your base address. And some (incorrectly implemented) systems might reject email addresses with + in them. So there may be rare cases where you can’t even use it.
It's not like i can sue them for selling my data even if a hacker breaks into their server and steals it. Why this is perfectly normal is beyond me. Why people talk about privacy when they literary giveaway their privacy for free and let other makes money from that?
It's literally 1 or 2 lines of code in most languages to index a "+" and and "@" and remove everything between them including the + from a string. I don't see this being very effective once companies start catching on to it.
I did something like that when I had access to an exchange server at work. I'd create aliases for anything that required an email address (like to download drivers). It gave me the ability to immediately dump those emails once I was done downloading the driver/app/whatever. All email systems should support this (though we all know why it is not).
I've been using this for a while to register new accounts with the same email but it never occurred to me I could track my email being sold like this, genius
I've been doing this for a couple years now and some companies have caught on and created a way to deny + sign included emails. Which basically gives you your answer if you should trust them. No reason not to do it.
This is trivially easy to strip out. If you're serious about it then do a custom domain with a service that allows catch-all or infinite aliases. Then you can have a unique email for each service that can't be stripped. Bonus points if you make it less obvious too
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Thankfully I wont have to deal with spam anymore considering I got a job with one of the biggest companies in the world for my first IT job. Big thanks to you man, you've helped me so much!!!
When you start doing this, you realize how many website, suddenly stop supporting '+' in their email addresses and your login no longer works, you can't even reset password lol
You can also generate aliases to your email through apps or websites what allows you do so. It makes sure to keep your original email protected so other side will never know what your real mail is and you can set those aliases way that whatever you send go through that alias so your mail will never be revealed
I feel incredibly lucky that I haven’t received any (classic) spam in my life. Neither via email, phone call or text. Only telegram scams on RUclips and OF scams on random social media
What we really need is instead of an 'unsubscribe' button, a 'single combat' button where when we press it we get to fight the CEO of the spamming company 1 on 1
Agreed.
@@NorthernChimpagree to agreed
or call a lawyer button, with this trick they are clearly identified.
Gmail actually has it sometimes, when it is able to figure it out.
I don't want to take on Zuckerberg, he will use his Robotic powers and royally fuck me over.
Modern spammers can probably just detect everything after the plus, remove it, and send it to your standard email address. Not really that hard to bypass
Bubble burster...😂
You're right but we aren't there yet. You can also run your own domain like I do and create a different address for every service.
Who said that your main email is the one without a plus. You could just make it as a dummy email, to see who are this advanced spammers.
I don't think enough people use this method, spammers probably won't bother
@@jmrit can be done without getting your own domain by using any free email aliasing service
Hey ppl, I'm a retired computer/IT person, Yet I still find Meta spy club so informative and straight forward. Thanks for your advise and helping the people...........Great work and love watching.
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Yes please. I would love a video that does a deep dive on the *Metaspyclub* project
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Your work speaks volumes of the kind of man you are. efficient, organized and result oriented well done , Dale Valskov you're soo good at what you do
It just kept glitching on me when I tried this video tutorial so firstly I would say thank you for the video and secondly, thank you Dale Valskov meeting you was a blessing in disguise keep up with the good work I'm sure a lot of people will be needing your assistance iin the nearest future after seeing this
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He does look like a Valskov...
The beard, lol.
It's amazing what you do Dale Valskov We need a lot of people with your skills and set who have good intentions and spread love
Metaspyclub anticipation is building to a fever pitch! 😥
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Dale Valskov . I really appreciate your efforts and dedication towards the work. May God bless you to keep showing your worth and skills like this in the future
Some web apps can use validation to prevent you from inputting +, but asides that, using + gives other advantage like signing up to a service several times with the same email, can be useful for unlimited free trials offer
Oh shit brilliant
And the exact reason why trials are becoming less prevalent from blatant abuse like this.
Came to say just this thank you.
The dot trick should work for that
@@darealjohnsmith what is the dot trick?
Im so happy I subbed to u, first its OSI, then google dorking, AI prompting now this. amazing.
I have used this for a while and I have had quite a bit of spam. A few years ago, we had the new GDPR rules, and now I can roll up to a company's legal department, tell them "you sold my email address, I know because of the email plus system, pay me money" and I got paid every. single. time. The worst offender so far is Facebook.
Does this work everywhere?
How much money?
@@konkenbonken About 500€ per company and incident. The official fines are much higher than that.
@@b0wking119 It works for most countries where the GDPR is in effect. So essentially all of EU and China. Yes, China has copied the GDPR.
@@kataseiko China is based af then. Every country that does not copy and apply the GDPR in its territory is corrupt and works against its own citizens. Simple as that.
Account of mine also got hacked and I followed the method as explained in this video but I'm unable to proceed after recording the selfie video. Thank you Dale Valskov . It brings me immense joy to witness his name appearing frequently in comments, a clear indication of the commendable work he’s been doing.
In my case, I had no image of myself on it which clearly stated I am a step behind. Dale Valskov was God’s sent. I appreciate your tireless efforts in assisting me with the account recovery. Your professionalism and commitment to finding a solution were evident at every step. Thank you for making the process efficient and effective.
Kudos to you, Dale Valskov for your extraordinary dedication and hard work in helping me recover my account. Your efforts are truly commendable, and I encourage you to maintain this exceptional standard as you embark on future endeavors. The path ahead is filled with promise for someone of your caliber
Been using this for years. A lot of places won't allow you to use the plus sign when you sign up anymore. The webapp has an input filter.
That’s funny I won’t sign up for those then 😂
Interesting. Thx for sharing.
yeah some validate to deny special characters and such, but for the most part it works with most modern services, and just about any small service
@@1ronman1My ISP did it to me the other day. Either I used my normal email address or I can't get internet access.
Partially because they realized it can be used for things like sql injections.
Though this is possible reason too
Kindly let me to express my sincere gratitude for the exceptional support and dedication Dale Valskov provided in helping me with business account. Your willingness to go above and beyond, investing additional time and effort, has been invaluable to me. The meticulous attention to detail and unwavering commitment you demonstrated throughout this process is truly commendable. Thank you from the bottom of my heart for your outstanding assistance.
I'm literally overwhelmed, You are a blessing to the world. I can't thank you enough Dale Valskov for helping me with my account recovery. My prayers will always be with you and your team. Keep it up guys. Love from Maldives. There are many people out there I pray everybody get help.
I think you’ve missed the most important detail regarding the “+” email identifier in my opinion. For me the biggest benefit is using it to parse through login credentials exposed via breached data sets; this allows us to trace through which sites/services have been compromised. Doing this we’ve been able to harden our own endpoints against clients email addresses / credentials that have been compromised and even identified 4 breaches prior to the public being notified.
Some companies are aware of that now and they don't accept emails with a plus sign. We need another alternative other than creating new emails.
There are other aliasing like SimpleLogin (you can read more about this) but there are some companies that understand this alternative type of aliasing which blocks user from signing up.
You can put periods within characters in your email address and it will still allow emails thru, though you'll have to remember which places you put those periods in for
Edit: Found out today this seems to only work with Gmail
@@Krzys_D thank you, I'll try it
@@Krzys_D Sounds like a nice trick. I'm gonna write the companies names in morse code if they dont allow the plus trick.
alternatively if it's for a website you won't use often you can use websites like temp mail. that give you an email that lasts 10 minutes, doesn't work on all websites because of spam protection obviously but can help bypass "you need an account to read our clickbait.".
I've used the "." trick but not the "+" trick. I run my own domain and give everyone a different email address. I use their name, date, and a random verification string so the addresses can't be reverse engineered.
Interesting.
how many shady companies did you catch?
@@ToroNero That's a great question. I've been doing this for years now and haven't caught any. I suspect the reason is my spam filter. Out of curiosity I'll look through my spam and see what email addresses are being used.
@@jmrtell us how it was
@@typeins It's crazy because I can't find any instances of my email address being sold or shared accept one instance I approved. They only shared the address with the partners I approved so that's fine. The bulk of the spam email I'm getting are addressed to decade and decades old(one I've had for at least 25 years) addresses that were listed as contacts for my domain names at one time. That was publicly searchable information. I did find several legitimate emails in my spam folder though. At this point I might be better off without a spam filter. My domain contact information is private now so I can update those email addresses and filter anything addressed to those old email addresses. If this proved anything to me it's that the problem isn't so bad anymore. I'll continue to do things the same way though because someone will eventually mess up and I want to know who.
Even though the RFC allows a plus sign in an email address, I find that many companies consider it invalid. It’s very obnoxious for them to unilaterally decide what’s allowed in an email address.
Unless you're dealing with money or something important, just use a trash email or even a temp email service if you only need to activate something once and don't care about using that account in the future.
Imagine that account suddenly becomes important.
Setup several different address' for specific purposes.
There are temporary email websites
You can't even leave it alone for long time google will check inactive email 😂
All email providers support this, not just Gmail.
I use Firefox Relay. So no plus but completely random email.
If it's random, how do you track where they got it from?
@@osbjmg When it is created the interface saves a description of the web page. Guessing it either uses the TLD or extracts html header info.
@@EdBruceWRX ah, thanks for teaching me something new!
icloud has the same thing
if only I had US$10 for every time chuck said, "I bet you didn't know this", and I knew it already; in fact, I've known it for years.
Yes, I do know about this, yes I do use it, but some UIs claim '+' is an invalid character when entering an e-mail address.
There was some other symbol that worked too but I can remember which one.
I did something like this 20 years ago with my own domain. Practically no one doesn't sell your email address.
I mean, great, but it's not like you can turn around and sue those companies
it does allow you if it's a company with a good public reputation to contact them and tell them that they either sold the data without your consent - big no-no in EU thanx to GDPR - , some of their "trusted parties" aren't following the rules they set out in the privacy-agreement or that they have a databreach which they didn't knew about yet.
yes, i have had all 3 happen to me. and i caught them all thanks to a similar trick using unique-per-requester mailaddresses with a personal domainname and a catch-all mailbox.
You can't sue, but you can set a custom filter on gmail to block emails from that specific email handle.
it not being worth sueing them, doesn't mean you can't sue them.
however if they break the law, or not follow the agreements both them and you agreed on, you could.
too bad, all those in "the land of the free", don't have the freedom of enjoying any privacy online.
I prefer taking more subtle and of course wholly ethical liberties
Apple’s “hide my email” for iCloud email is much better and easier. It randomly creates an email address that forwards to your main email. You can delete it anytime. Great for trials, temporary accounts, or just anything that isn’t critical.
And then you'll find that half of mail scripts don't know how to correctly handle + in the mail addresses :)
this is my biggest frustration. Ive used this for years but lots of places I've tried don't consider a + a valid symbol in an email. Some places dont even recognize other TLDs as valid.
I can’t believe Starbucks sold my pics to you. I hope you like the one I’m wearing a moomoo designed like a firefighter!
They say the most challenging thing in programming is to strip +anything off a text string. - Hackerman
Sarcasm?
There isn't a spammer on the planet that doesn't strip these from email addresses prior to sending. It hasn't been a useful tip in almost a decade now.
Like Starbucks (or the company buying their addresses) doesn't know what a + in a Gmail address means 😂😂
You vastly overestimate how much spam companies care. So someone they're spamming knows where they bought it from...so? Spamming, like scamming, is targeted at the lowest common denominator. Its not that they *can't* - they're not going to put in work to bypass your avoidance or information gathering because they literally dont care
@@RamikinHorde True, but email sellers charge more for "clean" lists.
Most of these companies arent filtering their address, they are just getting them and adding them to the list of people to blast spam to
You come up with amazing stuff, and I really appreciate it. Also Love all you put your children in to visit any website, that was priceless.
Nowadays spammers are the literate programmers.
Can confirm, if we still want your email. This will not hinder us lol
Gmail isn't the only one that does plus addressing ... So for those of you using Microsoft or something can also use it
so many site block plus addresses now sadly
Another really clever hack on this is to automatically move any email that contains the word "unsubscribe" into your spam folder
Except that many companies mark it as an invalid email if you have a + in there and thus won't allow you to use their site if you do that, and even if they didn't the company could still run a program to parse out the + and everything between it and the @, so really the only guaranteed way is to set up your own email service, create a bunch of individual accts for everything, and then have them forward everything to your main email inbox.
If you get newsletter from them and it's parsed out, you can easily speculate what their purpose of it was though
@@touma-san91 That's assuming they remove it for their own mailing purposes, and not just from mailing list that they sell.
@tatsu4935 It's easier to just use email aliases, and shut down any that get spammed.
No need to set up a bunch of individual accounts if you are using your own email service.
Just create one as a catch all
@AltonV That obviously is the more ideal method because then you control everything, but isn't what's being discussed here.
This right here! I've watched quite a bit of this guys stuff and this is THEE best info in my opinion ever!
Hello, i need to access an account urgently but i dont have the login details. Please how do i do this😢
Did you solve?
I received the most spam when I used the phish button on my email accounts to report the spam. Suddenly I started receiving 3 x the spam and it hadn’t stopped. How unusual eh?
I have experienced the same uptick after starting to report phishing attempts. Seems email providers have made ineffectual efforts to curb it so rather than reporting them I go into the trenches and investigate the abuse myself. Then when I do report it, instead of a paragraph they get an entire encyclopedia to sift through.
same experience here
The reason for that is that the spammers can see if you interacted with their message.
Its will tell them if you clicked on, opened, read, deleted, reported their message.
Then they have automated response, oh we have a person interacting here and send more.
I use the ignore conversation button on outlook and it seems to work without increasing spam
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Then the spammers remove +servicename and boom. You don’t know who sent it anymore lol
Hell, Google will probably remove it for them when they sell it to third parties 😂
That's okay if your inbox is already set up to send anything wihtout the alias to your junk
My gmail is filled with duolingo just trying to say to attend my classes now bro 😂
Stop using free E-mail providers helps a lot. Get a paid provider that respects privacy and you'll have no spam at all.
This has been around for over a decade and known more commonly years ago. Sorry, but even if this video was a year ago. It's OLD NEWS mate.
I didn't know of this tip so still informative to some newbies
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Another messed up part is that some places don't allow this format and return an error in the email.
would enjoy seeing a lawsuit that exposes breaking contract with this method.
Use this wisely. I once used this method to sign up on a government website. It failed to recognize this email after sign up and kept giving me an error saying: "incorrect email" because of the+ i assumed.
So yeah... Use this wisely.
I wish i knew that 10 years ago
Several websites no longer accept email addresses with a + sign
I assumed people already knew this. I’ve been using this for several years now.
I use it for a long time and yes I caught one company, where ppl took over data from old company to new company, which in EU is also not allowed without consent.
Here is a similar tip. You can put a dot anywhere your Email address and whatever you're signing up for will thank its a different Email but will still go to your inbox. Also helpful to let you know who sold your data.
You bet I didn't know this? Well, you bet wrong. Been doing that for over twenty years, since it was first announced.
They've all already caught onto this trick
Ok now I know Starbucks sending me spam what am i supposed to do next? Stop getting coffee?
I knew this method for labeling but haven't thought it would work to track spam mails
That hack isn’t as good as it sounds.
The +whatever suffix can simply be dropped spamming you on your base address.
And some (incorrectly implemented) systems might reject email addresses with + in them.
So there may be rare cases where you can’t even use it.
i already knew this but sadly these companies are realizing this trick or blocking the plus sign entirely
It's not like i can sue them for selling my data even if a hacker breaks into their server and steals it.
Why this is perfectly normal is beyond me.
Why people talk about privacy when they literary giveaway their privacy for free and let other makes money from that?
It's literally 1 or 2 lines of code in most languages to index a "+" and and "@" and remove everything between them including the + from a string. I don't see this being very effective once companies start catching on to it.
Don't take headache. Just mark them as spam. They will always land in spam and clean your spam after month or year. You can set auto clean too.
In like 3 lines of js you can auto remove the plus tag
I did something like that when I had access to an exchange server at work. I'd create aliases for anything that required an email address (like to download drivers). It gave me the ability to immediately dump those emails once I was done downloading the driver/app/whatever. All email systems should support this (though we all know why it is not).
set up a dummy email that forwards to your main email but that's more technical
I've been using this for a while to register new accounts with the same email but it never occurred to me I could track my email being sold like this, genius
More of a provided feature from gmail than a “hack”
Stacy Ferguson sings the line "You love my lady lumps" I'm not sure about the 124 though.
Yeah works only sorta, it either gets filtered or email fields outright refuse +addresses in the first place.
They have caught on to this.
Half of the times I've tried this, I get an error saying it's not a valid email address.
I’m sure when companies buy the day they can normalize the emails by removing anything after the plus sign.
For everyone saying a lot of websites ban the + sign, perhaps encoding it?
It bothers me that we still use email, so damn unsafe.
I've been doing this for a couple years now and some companies have caught on and created a way to deny + sign included emails. Which basically gives you your answer if you should trust them. No reason not to do it.
Damn. Did really not know this. Thought he would mention the point which could be anywhere. Thanks for this.
This is trivially easy to strip out. If you're serious about it then do a custom domain with a service that allows catch-all or infinite aliases. Then you can have a unique email for each service that can't be stripped. Bonus points if you make it less obvious too
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Thankfully I wont have to deal with spam anymore considering I got a job with one of the biggest companies in the world for my first IT job. Big thanks to you man, you've helped me so much!!!
Thanks for not making it a loop, it's so cliché lately that I really started to hate it
"Let’s just truncate some of that and then send"😂
When you start doing this, you realize how many website, suddenly stop supporting '+' in their email addresses and your login no longer works, you can't even reset password lol
Man that's a great idea chuck
Chuck you're an all time legend, love this!!!
Many don't accept an email with a "+something" even though these are legal email addresses.
This dude’s content is all just thinly veiled commercials. lol
I use telephones and radio over 👽
PSA: This can be removed from the sold/leaked CSV faster than you can say "plus addressing" and is not worth the trouble.
You can also generate aliases to your email through apps or websites what allows you do so. It makes sure to keep your original email protected so other side will never know what your real mail is and you can set those aliases way that whatever you send go through that alias so your mail will never be revealed
Stacy's mum has got it going on
been doing this religiously for years.
You bet wrong…. But I never realized this super useful application! 👏 thanks for sharing again!
I feel incredibly lucky that I haven’t received any (classic) spam in my life. Neither via email, phone call or text. Only telegram scams on RUclips and OF scams on random social media
What!? This is badass. Thanks Chuck!