Comment on For security reasons
neatchee@lemmy.world 6 months agoI imagine because it can’t be used to add additional junk characters to the address, they probably just strip them out before doing their string comparison
Comment on For security reasons
neatchee@lemmy.world 6 months agoI imagine because it can’t be used to add additional junk characters to the address, they probably just strip them out before doing their string comparison
Racle@sopuli.xyz 6 months ago
If they know this case. In other email services dots are usually not a junk characters.
neatchee@lemmy.world 6 months ago
For the same of checking uniqueness it’s probably fine to just ignore them. Yeah, it sucks if johndoe@obscure.domain and john.doe@obscure.domain can’t sign the same petition but outside of the big email services I imagine that kind of collision is pretty rare