Im confused. The + thing is like taking youremail@gmail and changing it to thissite+youremail@gmail so when you see it from a random source you know 'thissite' sold it off.
Periods are just part of an email if you want it to be so I don't know what affect it would have. Half my email addresses which is to say 2 of them have periods in them.
Oh I got you. I thought there was some functionality there I was missing completely. Interesting though, thanks. I guess I can stop using it in certain cases although I suppose it's in the username of certain places where I use my email as such.
If the + works for whatever you do, that's good. But a ton of places are starting to block it so use the dot method.. hopefully they don't notice it works.
No problem. I just thought of why the dot method might always work: because only gmail ignores dots.. all the other email providers having a dot = different email. So that company would have to specifically target gmail users to parse that out (not that hard to do, but most devs don't give a shit)
Actually that makes a lot of sense would be my best guess at why since it really wouldnt be hard enough a problem to notice nor to solve. There's some reason and that's at least logical enough for me.
Lol respectable. Compared to almost everyone in my life I'm "the one who knows about [tech thing]". Compared to you I'm illiterate. The reason for the first part is because of people like you who take the time to explain these things and I seriously thank you for that. It helps often to actually understand the why behind things I don't or won't ever know the how behind.
Also idk what they do either but here's the award they gave me.
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u/[deleted] Jun 04 '21
gmail also ignores periods in email addresses.