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  • Localhorst86@feddit.detoMildly Infuriating@lemmy.worldFor security reasons
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    5 months ago

    it takes basically no extra effort

    I’d assume one needs to verify the email by clicking a link, so to spam user1@domain.tld, user2@domain.tld would mean you need access to those inboxes. That means you need to go through the effort to actually create those emailadresses on whatever freemail service you chose, or you need to host the emailserver yourself and have all mails run into a catchall inbox.
    Hosting your own emailserver is definately not “basically no extra effort”, even for a lot of tech-savvy people, paying for a hosted email service using your own domain is easier, but also seems like not a good investment just to spam a petition website.

    The foo+bar@gmail.com functionality, however, is pretty well known tool - even by non-tech savvy people. Even some people I know that I consider basically tech-illiterate have known this for years, they have told me when they found out about it and asked me if I was aware of this functionality.

    The first one I mentioned requires preparation, setting up email accounts or an email server, the second one is basically already set up for most email users and ready to go, the latter is therefore definately a lot less effort to pull off.











  • I fondly remember the old opera days, up until the latest presto version, 12.18. If you knew what you were doing, you were able to fully customize the entire browser, all of it’s toolbars and context menus, it was incredible.

    Once they switched over to the Blink engine, all of that was lost. It’s entire USP gone, just like that.

    I’ve tried Opera 2 or 3 years back, just to see what it is like, and it’s just another pointless chromium based browser, offering nothing to keep me using it, and the more i see posts and ads from this company, the more I feel like I made the right choice.

    I’ve also tried the “spiritual successor” to Opera 12, Vivaldi, but it too couldn’t win me back over from Firefox.






  • for a wolf in sheep’s clothing, they are doing a very bad job of trying to hide they are a wolf. It’s more like an obvious wolf only trying to fake sheep’s noises, and even that they do badly.

    “Der Grund, warum wir von kulturfremden Völkern wie Arabern, Sinti und Roma etc. überschwemmt werden, ist die systematische Zerstörung der bürgerlichen Gesellschaft als mögliches Gegengewicht von Verfassungsfeinden, von denen wir regiert werden. Diese Schweine sind nichts anderes als Marionetten der Siegermächte des 2. Weltkrieges und haben die Aufgabe, das deutsche Volk klein zu halten indem molekulare Bürgerkriege in den Ballungszentren durch Überfremdung induziert werden sollen.”
    “The reason we are flooded with people of different cultures like Arabs, Romani People etc. is the systematic destruction of the civil society as a possible counterweight to the enemies of our consitution that govern us. Those pigs are nothing but puppets for the victors of World War 2 and their job is to keep the german people down by inducing civil wars through foreign domination in areas of high population density”

    • Alice Weidel