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That's another way yes and I've actually seen another site do this, but I wasn't able to find it in my browser history.

Maybe you are referring to https://www.emailnator.com/, it utilized that trick

Exactly, that's the site I had in mind although I'm pretty sure it had another name before (could perhaps also be the reason to why I didn't find it in the first place).

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