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Does "burner email" have a legal definition? I ask this in good faith, as a privacy conscious user with multiple emails β some of which have one purpose and one purpose only.
Thanks for any input!
We do not count e-mail alisases as burner e-mails, as I assume that is what you meant. The use of temporary e-mail addresses are not allowed on Lemmy.World, and this is checked and enforced automatically during sign-up. So, as an already successfully registered and confirmed user, you have nothing to worry about.
I assume this refers to some kind of automatically generated bot email thing?
Close enough. There are certain e-mail providers which one might use to generate and use an e-mail address only for a specific amount of time(eg. ~10 mins), and then will get destroyed by the provider and will no longer be valid. These services are mostly used by bots and spammers, as we have witnessed from countless spam attacks as well as CSAM incidents. Those are what we call burner mails, because they get burned quickly. And they are not allowed here anymore, since a while now.
So things like the βhide my emailβ addresses that iCloud generates are fair game. They are aliases. Right?
These are popular and available to very average people. All in the name of privacy, and anti-spam.