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If you are worried about your user details getting stolen after signing up with someone else's email-

You aren't using this service correctly.

The idea is to not give away your email or signup for a website, but get access to that website.

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Yeah, my interpretation is that it's for situations where you would normally prefer to use a fake email (joeblow238998324@gmail.com) but can't because of the verify link.

I typically use a rando address @mailsac.com but then I have to take the 3 steps to visit, enable links, click links. With this tool, I'm saved those 3 steps. Keep in mind, this is strictly for throw-away accounts that require registration

Thanks for seeing the value, after releasing this I got to know some services require session authentication, so without your password (or cookies) the bot cannot verify.

I think this was a nice experiment and still usable for many services.

You could let people pass the username/password in as part of the email tag, like:

guerillaemail+myusername-mypassword@gmail.com

As others have clarified, only for complete throwaway accounts obviously. I tested '-' and '!' and those characters appear acceptable as the delimiter. ':' gives a very strange error on send when using gmail.com. Also imagine you'd lose some letter casing along the way.

Really just a fun and terrible idea!

As a reminder, site operators, this is why some sites require you to enter a user/pass to confirm a "verify link".

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