I've encountered not being able to register using an email account that isn't hosted by one of the major commercial providers. I had to spin up an @outlook account to use for this nonsense. If it's something I don't really need to do, I often just nope on out of their bullshit instead. Similarly, yesterday I encountered a site that wouldn't let me submit their contact form if I didn't turn off my adblocker. Sucks for them, I was going to place a decent order and just had a question.
Comment on domain name with your own name?
Fiivemacs@lemmy.ca 7 months agoI have issues where companies won’t let me register because ‘you can’t have your last name as the @lastname’. They don’t trust it or whatever…I dunno
They have no issues trying to mail me their spam fliers but won’t let me use it to communicate with them. Kinda fucky…but yes it is more of a that’s cool moment.
8bitguy@kbin.social 7 months ago
pipariturbiini@sopuli.xyz 7 months ago
Lol, I often get a lot of confirmations on if my email address is right whenever I am in contact with any customer service… I use a catch-all on @lastname[dot]com.
“Is your email really ‘nameofstore@lastname•com’?”
DirtMcGirt@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Glad to see I’m not the only one doing this. It definitely leads to a lot of small talk about my email domain, but I’ve never run into a situation yet where I couldn’t sign up for something. My personal favorite is when reluctantly providing an email for something I don’t care about I can spout out something like “blockthishottrash@mydomain.tld”. That’s lead to some fun reactions.
KairuByte@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 months ago
I’ve run into services that won’t let you use the name of their service in your email. They assume it’s is their email because they don’t look for
.*@servicename\.com$they look for.*servicename.*.Tanoh@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Or maybe it is a feeble attempt to annoy people that sign up with
foo+service@somewhere.comand then sort it into different inboxes (of course you can filter on other things but + is built into gmail). You can also use it to see who sold your info when you get spam on that adress.KairuByte@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 months ago
Makes sense. The one that pops into mind is Auvik, and I was trying to register as auvik@mydomain.com.