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by paravirtualized 698 days ago
> Made this privacy conscious temporary mail extension

> Enable JavaScript and cookies to continue

It's not privacy conscious. Privacy conscious would mean A) does not use Cloudflare as a CDN B) does not require JavaScript C) does not discriminate against Tor users.

There are a few services like this already, which I'm not going to spoil for cred on HN, but my rating of this site as of now is 0/10, unusable in the literal sense.
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TemporaryMail 698 days ago
A) The connection is fully encrypted.

B) That would make the UX horrible.

C) I had Tor enabled in the beginning, but when I got complaints from people on Tor doing really shady stuff with it I had to disable it.

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paravirtualized 698 days ago
The woes of supporting an "I don't want to leave any crumbs" threat model. There are countless of pro-privacy projects who call themselves that simply because their service can be used to increase privacy, but they do not actually do much to protect privacy beyond that. Many even use Google Analytics.

For B, simply support both. This site is popular enough for there to be no risk sharing: Guerrilla Mail.

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TemporaryMail 698 days ago
Take a look at your network requests though, there isn't a single third-party script running on the site.

I understand what you mean, but it has to apply to the use-case. If the service I was running was to support journalists, then I would agree with you, but taking these measures would help promote spam as users would be able to get around the rate-limiting that I've set.

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