I also reached out to them on Twitter but they directed me to this form. I followed up with them on Twitter with what happened in this screenshot but they are now ignoring me.

  • CosmicTurtle@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    11 months ago

    Not necessarily shady.

    I use 10 minute email if a merchant requires me enter an email account before seeing the total price on an item (including shipping). That’s the most common pattern I’ve seen. My guess is that they want to ping you to complete the purchase.

    Or a website might require free registration in order to view the content.

    One place I use 10-minute email is actually Spotify. I didn’t want to give them my Gmail address since your name is exposed to the world via their sharing API.

    Don’t get me wrong, there are a lot of bad uses for it as well. But privacy minded people use it too.