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How about "stop using weird email addresses"? Just because you can doesn't mean you have to.

How do you know you can trust a random email validator you found via Google? Especially if apparently the rationale is to use a googled one because they are so complicated nobody can really understand them?

That advice seems bad to me. Perhaps it is not necessary to validate and just emailing is sufficient (as the article advises). In that case perhaps downgrading the validation to a warning might be helpful, though ("the email you entered looks weird, please double check").



I saw something similar to this once, I think it was on eventbrite. I entered my @google.com work address for an event, and it asked me "are you sure this is your email address" presumably because people sometimes confuse gmail.com and google.com. I thought that was quite good.




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