Hacker News new | ask | show | jobs
by belzebub 3238 days ago
Email address is stupid, we should have randomly generated proxy email addresses.
2 comments

A former coworker makes liberal use of American Express disposable credit card numbers -- proxy credit card numbers that you can request to give away to less than trustworthy merchants.
Privacy (https://privacy.com/) offers a similar service for those that want something that works with more than American Express cards or other such offerings from other card issuers.
Did not know about this! Checked it out, got really excited... and then discovered it's US only :-(
I use this all the time. It's great.
My Citibank card has the same feature, although the number generation applet requires Flash. On a banking website. In mid-2017.
Email addresses have been working fine for me. What I would love though is a way to easily alias my phone number.