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by brongondwana 1112 days ago
Also, every website would have to have a way to do this. That's a massive bootstrapping effort that, you can't change every website in the world very easily, there'd have to be a very massive advantage for them. I don't see the evolutionary pathway to get your suggestion implemented.

Besides, this already exists anyway, it's basically:

brong+secretkey@fastmail.com

Or if you have fastmail style subaddressing:

secretkey@brong.fastmail.com
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echelon 1112 days ago
`+secretkey` is easy to remove.

I don't think changes are hard to push forward. Soon every website will require SSL. Tech giants can move the needle on adoption of new standards.

Wanting to stay in contact with your customer is a pretty big forcing function for adoption.

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zrail 1112 days ago
> Soon every website will require SSL.

This has been a very gradual change. The earliest announcement I can find is from 2018[1] but I'm pretty sure it was in the works long before. That's more than five years to implement a technology that browsers and servers at the time already had known how to do for a decade or more.

Massively coordinated change is _hard_.

[1]: https://blog.chromium.org/2018/02/a-secure-web-is-here-to-st...

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