[HN Gopher] Show HN: An ad free temporary mail service
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       Show HN: An ad free temporary mail service
        
       Made this privacy conscious temporary mail extension as a hobby a
       few years ago as I found a cool domain.  I've now revamped the UI,
       added more domains and created an extension that shows your inbox
       in your browser (it only asks for permission to read from
       TemporaryMail.com and not all sites like the other extensions),
       it's also free from ads (paying the service out of pocket and
       perhaps adding an upgrade feature later on).  What makes this site
       a bit more unique is that I wrote the email parser from scratch
       following the RFC (took me 2 months and tons of testing) so it
       should display all incoming emails exactly as they are displayed in
       your favorite email client.  The site itself:
       https://TemporaryMail.com  Firefox Extension:
       https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/temporary-ema...
       Chrome Extension:
       https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/temporarymailcom-a-...
       Edge Extension:
       https://microsoftedge.microsoft.com/addons/detail/temporarym...
       Opera Extension:
       https://addons.opera.com/en/extensions/details/temporarymail...
       Please give me your worst and criticize it to oblivion as I want to
       improve it. Also thinking about adding an API for it so let me know
       your thoughts on that too.  PS  I launched this back at the end of
       December 2020 and posted here on HN and it didn't get much
       traction.
        
       Author : TemporaryMail
       Score  : 6 points
       Date   : 2024-07-14 16:35 UTC (6 hours ago)
        
       | singron wrote:
       | Do you have a commercial interest or is this just for fun or a
       | kind of public service?
        
         | TemporaryMail wrote:
         | Just for fun.
         | 
         | It started with me getting annoyed with SHEIN as they sent out
         | spam to me and their unsubscribe link was set to localhost
         | (127.0.0.1 - they are still using this last I checked) and in
         | the same time period I found a suitable domain at an auction so
         | I thought I'd give this a go.
        
       | xlinux wrote:
       | The only feature temp mail service should focus on having tons of
       | domains.
       | 
       | Many temp mail domains are blacklisted. only way to get around is
       | rotating the domain name everyday.
       | 
       | I will give it a try.
        
         | TemporaryMail wrote:
         | You're right about that and I'm doing my best at rotating, but
         | it's very easy to detect these addresses as the "detectors" can
         | simply just set a cron to grab the latest domains once an hour.
         | 
         | I'm however thinking about creating a paid service with a low
         | price (maybe like $2/month) just to filter out the majority of
         | the bots and then using that money to get a lot of domains.
        
         | KomoD wrote:
         | This is what the top sites do, e.g. temp-mail.org
         | 
         | And they also don't allow you to view all the active domains
         | which helps against getting blacklisted quickly
        
           | omoikane wrote:
           | I find it amusing that a .org site (temp-mail.org) has ads
           | all over it while a .com site (temporarymail.com) does not,
           | given that .org was mostly used by non-profits while .com is
           | intended for commercial use.
        
       | KomoD wrote:
       | Why generate the random names on the server? That could just be
       | done on the client, reduces load and is faster.
        
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