Do you know this Gmail hack??

20 thoughts on “Do you know this Gmail hack??”

• Been doing this for 15+ years

• Genuinely blew my mind. I can’t believe this knowledge isn’t just plastered everywhere for everyone to see! Gold dust.

• Do you need to use the +whatever when you log in?

• You copy so many other peoples content lol😂

• I knew from many years now

• I keep seeing this trick everywhere, but it's never worked for me.

• And how does that help me avoid new spam emails?
  I’ve been getting this one spammer who obfuscates their name into Name<Name> which makes Outlook not pick up on the real email from Canadian Tire domain. I’ve even written a script to clean up my mailbox based on the above naming pattern. I still can’t block the email address, because Outlook does not parse it when the email is received. And I know the email.

• Meanwhile systems that validate email inputs: ._.

• I saw the same hack from 2 different channel within the last 3 hours. The universe really wants me to try this out. Lol.

• A lot of stacey lumps entered the chat

• Modern spammers just detect and strip the plus addresses.

• What will it change?

• Ha ha, i worked at a marketing company, and they automatically delete everything between + and @ before saving the entry.

• I've been using it, just recently started getting a lot of spam and realized they were all addressed to one of the + addresses, so I was able to figure out that it was from a service that I don't use anymore and filtered any email sent to that address directly into the trash.
  If it was to a service I still use I would probably just go in and change my address to a completely different + email and filter the original, see how often they sell my information.

• This isn't gmail specific. Its the mail standard noob

• A) This tip is old as hell and has been around since basically the inception of GMail. B) You don't think email marketers know this stupid trick and just preg_replace() that stupid part out of the email?

• mfw my code just removes everything between + and @ before selling it

• thats why i have like 5 emails by now… one is normal spam stuff and one is the bottom of the barrel spam stuff. The other ones i only use on important stuff…

• In like 3 lines of js you can auto remove the plus tag

• I bet I did know this, and I have been doing the roided up version of this on my personal email server for longer than Gmail has existed.

  I have created custom aliases for each company/account for as long as I've had a personal email server. I.e. starbucks@mydomain.com is an alias to my personal email, and that way I can always trace back the most egregious resellers of personal info (I see you careerbuilder, monster, and other job posting sites!) Because these are aliases, they're more permanent then the plus addresses at Google, and like others have mentioned there is less of a way for companies to get around it.

  The only 2 problems I've had over the years are that it's more difficult to manage, and occasionally companies refuse email addresses that have their name in them (Comcast is a good example) but that would be a problem with google plus addresses too.

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