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Spammers, trolls, and ban evaders often use temporary email addresses. PieFed now checks a list of known temporary email providers and displays a warning icon next to registrations that use such services.

If registration mode is set to "Open" (no approval needed) then the site admin(s) receive a notification instead.

A throwaway email address isn't always a bad thing but it's one factor that admins might want to take into account.

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Although this doesn't actually diminish their privacy or stop them from using a throwaway email address

That's exactly what it does.

Without getting those people on board there won't be a place to apply for an account

What does it matter if there's a place to apply for an account if I can't use it? Better not to exist at all.