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Github vs. Email Aliases (lemmy.ml)

submitted 8 months ago by mrshy@lemmy.ml to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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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.

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[–] backhdlp@iusearchlinux.fyi 11 points 8 months ago (2 children)

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

[–] MonkderZweite@feddit.ch 7 points 8 months ago (3 children)

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

[–] pineapplelover@lemm.ee 3 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months 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 8 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] BreakDecks@lemmy.ml 1 points 8 months ago

It's called an email alias: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Email_alias

[–] joyjoy@lemm.ee 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I thought that was a gmail specific thing.

[–] BreakDecks@lemmy.ml 1 points 8 months 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 8 months ago

Thats an extension

[–] Lojcs@lemm.ee 5 points 8 months ago (2 children)

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

[–] backhdlp@iusearchlinux.fyi 2 points 8 months ago

I guess so

[–] b763e622@lemm.ee 2 points 8 months 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 8 months ago (1 children)

Wouldn't that ban self hosted email period?

[–] b763e622@lemm.ee 1 points 8 months ago

Depends on what header they read and how