I also reached out to them on Twitter but they directed me to this form. I followed up with them on Twitter with what happened in this screenshot but they are now ignoring me.

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    1 year 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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      1 year 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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          When you share your playlist or have Spotify hooked up to some other service like discord, it shows the name associated with the account.

          And changing that name is not as straight forward as you might think.

          Given the fact that it’s shared so easily, I wouldn’t be surprised if email addresses could be exposed with the right options.