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[-] bignose@programming.dev 1 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 21 hours ago)

The spec is so complex that it’s not even possible to know which regex to use

Yes. Almost like a regex is not the correct tool to use, and instead they should use a well-tested library function to validate email addresses.

[-] notarobot@lemmy.zip 1 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago)

Exactly! But its not obvios. So most of those shitty websites don't even know they have a problem.

Then there are also people ignoring it on purpose. I once read a reddit comment saying 'well of your address looks like "John wick 🐶❤️"@2001:0db8:85a3:0000:0000:8a2e:0370:7334 I don't event want your email in my DB because oit will break something

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