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by pembrook 547 days ago
That has nothing to do with it.

Businesses block fake email generators because they’re overwhelmingly used by fraudsters/spammers/etc trying to abuse systems.

Anybody who’s ever run an internet service that allows open registration or has a free plan knows this the hard way.

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Exactly. They want to only have direct personal emails so that if someone is a spammer they can easily be blocked/banned. And so that there are consequences for spamming. This is sort of the same principle as KYC.