alt Hacker NewsThe article author attemps to make a distintion between "burners" and "aliases" but I don't believe one exists for this usecase. Let's say for the sake of argument that you think blocking burner emails provides meaningful protection (I don't, but services using such a list obviously do). From your perspective, an "alias" is the same as a "burner". Both can be easily generated in bulk by a human or bots, cannot be resolved to an identity, and cannot be compared to determine if two emails are the same person.
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croes • today at 4:46 PM
> cannot be resolved to an identity, and cannot be compared to determine if two emails are the same person.
How do you do that with gmail addresses?
What kind of hide-my-email providers give you unlimited aliases that can be created in bulk?
It’s definitely against the ToS for the ones I’ve used.
One could give the same argument for blocking Gmail. You can create Gmail accounts in bulk, you can’t resolve them to an identity, and you can’t compare them to determine if they’re the same person.
The difference is that you trust Gmail to enforce their ToS, do KYC and ban people abusing their service. Should you?