The + has no special meaning in the standards, and thus removing it will just result in invalid addresses in many cases…
Doesn't matter. Most email services[1] use it the way Gmail does and spam is a numbers game. Losing a few valid addresses is worth correlating all those other addresses for most spammers.
Standards only matter to nerds like us.
[1] https://proton.me/blog/what-is-email-alias#5
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Doesn't matter. Most email services[1] use it the way Gmail does and spam is a numbers game. Losing a few valid addresses is worth correlating all those other addresses for most spammers.
Standards only matter to nerds like us.
[1] https://proton.me/blog/what-is-email-alias#5