Is that really "widespread/mainstream" though? Podcasts listening is pretty huge; in the US "38% of those age 12+ in the U.S. are monthly podcast listeners" (ref: https://www.edisonresearch.com/the-infinite-dial-2022/)
I also use my catch all to create unique "business" email addresses. The best encounter I had was giving my email address to retail person at a store and having them mistake me for an employee and give me the corporate discount. They asked me why I hadn't mentioned I worked for bigcompany@mydomain.
I've been using a catch-all domain with unique addresses (example: ycombinator@mydomain) for every service/site/etc. for more than 10 years.
Surprisingly, none of these email addresses have gotten spam, outside of what the original service sends.
As someone else mentioned, most of the spam I received comes from people with the same name as me. I was an early gmail adopter and my gmail is my firstnamelastname@gmail. I get spam, people's rental agreements, dating profile information, mortgage closing papers, etc for people with my name from across the country. There is someone who has been convinced they can create a gmail with my firstname.lastmail@gmail who has signed up my account for facebook, netflix, and espn+. This is much more of a problem for me.
My early adopter short gmail address has a similar issue. With password reset by email, it seems like a really bad idea to use it for your bank account, amazon, etc. when I can just reset your password and login.
Also have been using catch-all with companyname@myrealname.com since 2007 and haven't had any significant problems with spam except for a brief period when a baseball player with the same name was in the news.
Password reset and cancel those accounts. Those companies aren't doing due diligence with verifying email. You don't want someone else's commercial activity linked to your identity.
The most interesting site I've pw reset and cancelled so far has been my name-sake's dating account on bigblackbeautifulsingles. He had quite a few matches.
My father has encountered this a fair bit. He was able to get a one of the most prolific incorrect email address users to realize their mistake when they used his email address while purchasing a house in England and he was able to contact the realtor to get back to the person misusing the address and correct the email address.
There's still someone who has emirates frequent flier miles associated with his email address that they can't use (they've forgotten the password to the account and it keeps sending the email to him - but without enough information for him to either respond back or identify the account to have it corrected).
On a similar note, I was also an early Cash App adopter and my username is my firstnamelastinitial (something like JohnS). Increasingly, over the last few years, I've been receiving unsolicited money, almost $800 to date. I used to received much more spam requests.
I ask the senders to "request a refund" but surprisingly, they never do. I guess that's one benefit of having a common username on a service.
This is an interesting article. I'm going to ask my doctor about it. I had Covid in early November, 2021, and still experience some of the symptoms others have mentioned in this thread (80 percent smell back, some foods taste different, and some smells are different than pre-covid; for example, coffee smells like warm cheese to me now).
My concern is sample size of two patients for the article. Still, if it's a common procedure with low risk, it sounds interesting enough to look into.
That's interesting. In my state in the US, government took an opposite approach due to the pandemic to where now cocktails can be ordered "to-go" and curbside. It started as an emergency order and was recently passed as law.
I don't know. Greed? I've been following the 1Password Saga for a while (long time user), and how they responded to the electron pushback seemed like they lost their initial vision and what made them "in touch" with their users like me.
Reading about it now, it feels like the electron move was a result of the VC money. With pressure to grow comes endless A/B tests, gimmicky features, etc and having too many different platforms means you need to split the work across more devs. Trying to match the extra functionality and have the same look is pretty difficult as a program grows.
That being said I hate that 1Password needs that. It’s just a password manager at the end of the day.
With 1Password 8, they shared news that they were moving from native (mac) apps to an Electron UI/frontend with a Rust backend. They did an AMA on Reddit, but didn't show up for a while and got hammered by their users. Their refrain, until Dave Teare showed up, was "but it will be on Rust and the backend will be faster" and didn't acknowledge why users might be upset with the move from Native to Electron apps.
I think it was a mistake to even involve the online community. Of course nerds want you to build a high-quality native experience on every platform because they are heavily invested in their platform of choice. Listening to these kinds of users at all will drive your business to ruin.
Honestly building on "tech stack power users hate" is probably the easiest way to fire all your worst, most needy, users.
