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>Accept a certain amount of loss in exchange for fair customer treatment.

"accepting loss" gets priced accordingly. personally, i'd rather give merchants my real email address and not pay an extra fee simply to give you the privilege of keeping your email address secret.

If you want to make yourself indistinguishible from a fraudster, please find a way to do it without affecting the price everybody else pays.




Lots of things that help other customers besides you are priced into the product you pay for. In some cases (like if a company auto-rejected strange email addresses), I don't think it's fair to expect other customers or the company to cater only to how you purchase.

Of course, just being "flagged" as is the case here instead of rejected is fine. It's larger companies that use these heuristics as their final answer that are the problem, and we shouldn't blame/punish legitimate customers.


>I don't think it's fair to expect other customers or the company to cater only to how you purchase.

but you do think it's fair to expect a company to cater to the relatively unique way you use email?




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