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There’s a specific kind of frustration that comes from signing up for something online. You find a free tool you want to try. You click the signup button. A form appears asking for your name, your email address, and sometimes your phone number. You know the moment you type your real email, you’re agreeing to … Read more

My first experience with the term “fake mailer” was embarrassing. I was a junior developer at a small startup. We’d just built an onboarding flow and needed to test whether our welcome email was actually landing in users’ inboxes — or getting swallowed by spam filters. My senior colleague casually said “just use a fake … Read more

Three years ago, I signed up for a free Canva account. Nothing crazy — just needed to make a quick presentation. I typed in my real Gmail, verified, and moved on. Within two weeks, I was getting emails from Canva, their “partner offers,” a design newsletter I’d never heard of, and a promotional blast from … Read more

Last month I tried signing up for a free stock photo website. No payment required. Just a free account to download a few images for a blog post. Simple enough — until the signup form asked for my phone number before letting me proceed. I stared at it for a second. A phone number. For … Read more

It started with a weirdly specific sales call. I’d opened a promotional email from a SaaS tool I was considering — just glanced at it, didn’t click anything, closed it. Twenty minutes later, a sales rep called me. “I saw you were checking out our pricing page,” he said. I hadn’t visited their pricing page. … Read more

My colleague almost lost access to our entire company’s cloud storage last year — because of one email that looked completely legitimate. It came from what appeared to be Google. Clean layout, correct logo, familiar font. It said his account had been flagged for “unusual activity” and he needed to verify his credentials within 24 … Read more

A few months back, I received an email from a service I had signed up for in 2019. Not unusual. What was unusual was that the email addressed me by a nickname I only ever used on one specific forum — a forum that had nothing to do with this service. That moment of “wait, … Read more

I’m not proud of this number: 11,247 unread emails. That was my Gmail count about two years ago. I’d let it spiral for months — ignoring newsletters, deleting nothing, unsubscribing from nothing. Every time I opened my inbox I felt a low-grade anxiety I couldn’t explain. I’d miss actual important emails buried under seventeen “FLASH … Read more

I signed up for a “free” PDF download three years ago. One click, entered my email, got the file. Done, right? Wrong. What followed was two years of relentless marketing emails I never asked for, a password reset notice from a site I didn’t even remember joining, and one genuinely sketchy “Your account has been … Read more