2 mo. ago • 94%

TIL SimpeLogin has limits for how many accounts you can make for a single site

Privacy @lemmy.world TIL SimpeLogin has limits for how many accounts you can make for a single site

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The purpose of these kinds of aliases is to disassociate the human's email address from the service. Alias services like this aren't designed to enable multiple signups for a single service. Otherwise it would quickly be a tool abused by spammers, blocked by services, and useless for people.

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- I completely agree and I would like to add one more thing. The way simple login responded to this issue was very nice. They could have been a whole lot more aggressive about this.
  
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  different Lemmy accounts on different instances?
  
  Those are different websites though.
  
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  I don't know what the limit is, but I have about 7 reddit accounts.
  
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  Or have a public social media account and a 'business' one I use to share my own music or something? My dual-boxing MMO accounts?
  
  Wanna bet that you are already breaking TOS with both of these things? And I don't mean SimpleLogins TOS, but the one of the social media platform and MMO. Most big platforms only allow one account per user, no matter how the account is used. Sometimes you can create a business account, but that's still linked to your private one. Same goes for pretty much any online game, you are limited to one account per person.
  
  I don't think that there is any sense behind these limitations, but simplelogin isn't concerned about that, they only care about the legality of your actions and limit their service accordingly.
  
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I find it interesting that Proton's other alias solution doesn't even know what domain aliases are used for. That information shouldn't be necessary.

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Paid or free?

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- SimpleLogin premium, with their domain. But I can't blame them for not wanting to ruin the simplelogin.com domain
  
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  I wonder if that's the case for custom domains as well.
  
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I do sometimes use it to create multiple accounts, but never more than two.

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How did they find out???
Alias description? Inbox headers?

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How many is "multiple times" may be useful information. Ball park numbers atleast?

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- I got it after make 5 aliases for 5 Reddit accounts.
  
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  Hmm ya that is a little lower limit than I expected on premium. Could hit that with normal throwaway acc use.
  
  Would be nice if they allowed like 10 IMO but I guess they have to set the limit somewhere to stop spammers using the service.
  
  Guess you could delete the older aliases as you stop using those throwaways and recycle the slot? Not a perfect solution, but 4 throwaways and 1 main at any given time isnt too shabby.
  
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- Yeah, you don't need an email to make a Reddit account. If new Reddit complains use old Reddit.
  
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Now head over to Erin.email and make an account with every simple login alias you have ever made

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wtf this better not be true for paid customers cause that defeats the point of aliases

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- It makes sense to have some kind of limit to prevent abuse, otherwise Reddit (or other sites) may be forced to ban the SimpleLogin domain if it becomes a source of spam. It would be similar from an email provider preventing you from sending spam from their domain.
  
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  I forget that I use a custom domain for simplelogin so this doesnt really apply to me unless I do it hundreds of times
  
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- This is on my paid account.
  
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