Spammers, trolls, and ban evaders often use temporary email addresses. PieFed now checks a list of known temporary email providers and displays a warning icon next to registrations that use such services.

If registration mode is set to “Open” (no approval needed) then the site admin(s) receive a notification instead.

A throwaway email address isn’t always a bad thing but it’s one factor that admins might want to take into account.

  • chickenf622@sh.itjust.works
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    3 months ago

    Does this include people that use email aliases to keep the connections between accounts harder to make? I pay for this service so it’s genuinely not a throw away account. Just a way to maintain some privacy.

    • Rimu@piefed.socialOPM
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      3 months ago

      I don’t know which service you use or whether it is on the list. But if it’s a paid service then it’s probably not on the list. Things on the list are like https://10minutemail.com/ or https://www.guerrillamail.com/

      You’re free to maintain your privacy and admins are free to weigh the potential risk of accepting an application with a warning icon on it. I’m sure there will be plenty who ignore it.