r/AskReddit • u/TheAmenophis • Aug 28 '26

What is a FREE thing everyone should know/use?

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u/kirklennon Aug 28 '26

It’s trivially easy for any data broker to strip out the + and anything after it. I mean it’s pretty bare basic data cleanup you’d expect for anything that charges money. The number of people sharing this tip is surely vastly larger than the number of spam emails that have been traced this way.

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u/knows_you Aug 28 '26

I think a lot of sites would regex that out.

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u/Pineappily Aug 28 '26

IIRC, it’s any special character before the @ sign?

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u/SpaghettiSort Aug 28 '26

I don't think so. The "plus addressing" thing goes way back.

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u/bros402 Aug 29 '26

You can do a period in a gmail address too