3 months ago
- The author previously created a burner email blocklist tool but now advises against automatically blocking all privacy email services at signup.
- A key distinction is made between public, shared burner inboxes and personal aliases, with the latter being legitimate tools for privacy protection.
- Blocklists are ineffective against determined abusers, who can easily circumvent them, while penalizing privacy-conscious users.
- Email verification alone does not guarantee account authenticity or trustworthiness, and blocklists should only be part of a broader trust assessment.
- The author suggests splitting blocklists into categories for public inboxes and personal aliases and has deprecated their original project, transferring ownership to a maintainer.