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If a website won't allow me to register with my protonmail , I will just not used that website.
Yep.
I've already run into a few. I mentally thank them for preventing me from wasting my time and money with them.
Is this going to be the response every time this shit happens until we're all just sitting on Lemmy twiddling our thumbs? The arrogance feels like it's downplaying the seriousness of the problem, and it's annoying to see it recited so much.
In a lot of cases, you may not have a choice of using the site or not. In cases where you do have a choice, eventually most if not all the alternatives can do the same shit if it becomes normalized.
API is letting these types of filter lists become shared easily, too. Sites may not even make a conscious decision to filter out proton, it may just happen because their filters are pulling from lists like this.
The problem is the trend. And try as you may, you can not fully escape that.
Well sometimes those websites ask you to register because you are buying something so they will loose me as a customer. Also even if I complain most companies dont care about privacy so I prefer to use my wallet as a way for this companies to listen my voice.
Use a custom domain on Protonmail (which includes Simplelogin) and you won't have any issues. It's a grand total of $5 per year for the domain.
Use a temporary email every time you use the website. Clog their mailing lists full of garbage. Make their metrics lie to them
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Same. That said, sometimes itβs a config error. I sent a very annoyed email to a website that didnβt work on Firefox, only for them to tell me that it was a bug and that they fixed it.
Yep what a wild thing, to try and filter email domains so they can try and find "fake" providers
And since people won't use the website, the website won't use the list. So the list would be useless.
The maintainer seems to have followed the same interpretation, weighing legitimate use against spam use. This is the official response to the issue as of 8h ago:
Simple as, if they don't even support e-mail it's surely a rather shite site.
The closed garden corpo-approved electronic message service the github issue is talking about simply won't do.
GitHub blocked me from registering with a Proton domain: