[janc_]

The + has no special meaning in the standards, and thus removing it will just result in invalid addresses in many cases…

[AlexandrB]

Doesn't matter. Most email services[1] use it the way Gmail does and spam is a numbers game. Losing a few valid addresses is worth correlating all those other addresses for most spammers.

Standards only matter to nerds like us.

[1] https://proton.me/blog/what-is-email-alias#5

[Ferret7446]

Except plus address users are also less likely to be receptive to spam, so it's probably better to just not bother

[inigyou]

Spam has never been about how "receptive" the recipient is.

[inigyou]

They can check if it's Gmail though.