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submitted 2 days ago by ritchie@lemmy.world to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

Just a little storytime about Vinted.

I just wanted to register on Vinted to sell some second-hand stuff, because I haven't had much success elsewhere. I would have never imaged that they will reject my addy.io alias. After a couple of annoying e-mails detailing how to register an account, I was left with the answer on the screenshot after trying to get an explanation why the domain I am paying for (not some random free gmail address) is not worthy of their services...

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[-] beeb@lemm.ee 8 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

I was curious so I tried to register with a Proton Pass liss which is @passmail.net and they also refuse those. I think they are afraid of services which allow to easily create multiple aliases, because people could create multiple accounts very easily (scammers maybe)? It's a dumb rationale because it's not much harder to create many Gmail accounts but that's the only reason I can think of.

[-] ritchie@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

Most probably true. It is sad though that they are not straightforward about it so that they send a list of domains they like.

this post was submitted on 17 May 2025
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