Comment on I'm locked out of my 6 year old Chipotle account because they now say my email address is invalid when I login. Here is me asking for their help:

• CosmicTurtle@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Doesn’t surprise me one bit. I’ve noticed that a lot of websites will only accept .com and a few will only accept email addresses from popular providers (Gmail, Hotmail, outlook, etc.)

  My guess is that it’s trying to reduce spam and fake account generation.

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  • deweydecibel@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    My guess is that it’s trying to reduce spam and fake account generation.

    Thus preventing the growth of any small providers and further entrenching Microsoft, Google, Apple, and a handful of others as the only “viable” options.

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  • Blamemeta@lemm.ee ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Yeah, that’s it pretty much.Like 99% of your legitimate users are going to be standard gmail/yahoo/hotmail/etc. You see a user from ten minute mail, it’s probably some shady shit.

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    • CosmicTurtle@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Not necessarily shady.

      I use 10 minute email if a merchant requires me enter an email account before seeing the total price on an item (including shipping). That’s the most common pattern I’ve seen. My guess is that they want to ping you to complete the purchase.

      Or a website might require free registration in order to view the content.

      One place I use 10-minute email is actually Spotify. I didn’t want to give them my Gmail address since your name is exposed to the world via their sharing API.

      Don’t get me wrong, there are a lot of bad uses for it as well. But privacy minded people use it too.

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      • acetanilide@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        ELI5 the bit about spotify’s sharing API?

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  • MBM@lemmings.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Feels very relevant to the fediverse, with how people tend to compare it to email.

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• frozen@lemmy.frozeninferno.xyz ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I went with .io specifically for this. It doesn’t look special or anything, it’s just cheaper than .org and accepted anywhere I’ve tried, so far.

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  • freehugs@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    What registrar do you use? Last time I checked .io domains where like 4x the price of a .org

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    • frozen@lemmy.frozeninferno.xyz ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Namecheap. But it might also have to do with my domain not being very popular. Not sure.

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      • intensely_human@lemm.ee ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Ah that makes sense. So far I’ve been using Namexpensive

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