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thought you guys would find this blog post from Brian Leiter today funny. he's a pretty good guy and a respected scholar so no shade on him, clearly just misinformed. i wonder if this is in some way downstream of the recent political drama around proton.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (3 children)

My email is [email protected] so it's not exactly anonymous.

Edit: My real email obviously has my actual name on it.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

That seems about as anonymous as they come.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Naturally I don't include my real name in the example.

[–] prettybunnys 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

You aren’t filling me Mr. last name

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago

You're gonna make him pull out? Lame.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

So it's your fault they had to add a period between firstname and lastname!

Now it's a race to get a good number like firstnamelastname69 or 112358.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

The period is optional. Not using it or placing a period somewhere else and it still works. Also a +whatever before the @ works too. Easy to see who sold your data. [email protected] and every spam you get with the +facebook in the address is from data Facebook sold.

Edit: yeah, whatever happens, it is always my fault. Remember that.

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

That's just an example. My real email has my actual name on it.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Yeah mine too, but am not going to put my full name here. The joke was mine is almost the same, but we have different names (I guess) so they are completely different. But now I want [email protected]. By the way, did you know your email works without the dot too? Or when you add multiple dots? You can also add +sitename before the @ so you can see who sold your data. So, [email protected] works just as well as [email protected] and [email protected]

Edit: firstnamelastname@proton is already in use :'(

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago

I was forced to do lastname.firstname since apparently my name is super common and every other variation was taken already with all of protonmail.com, pm.me, proton.me, etc.