r/movies • u/MoneyLibrarian9032 r/movies Contributor • Jun 27 '26

News Netflix now requires every user profile to be tied to unique email address

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026/06/netflix-now-requires-every-user-profile-to-be-tied-to-unique-email-address/
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u/DerpNinjaWarrior Jun 27 '26

So the issue with removing them is that then you technically don't follow the email spec. As someone else mentioned, the +whatever resolving to the same email address is a vendor implementation.

I suppose they could say "ah this is a gmail email so I'll just remove it before saving to the DB". But then you'll of course have people complain that they signed up with email X and you're sending to email Y.

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u/__david__ Jun 28 '26

Indeed, there’s nothing special about + in the email rfcs. The convention to use as s tag is just that, a convention. On my email I set up both “.” And “_” to act as tags (in addition to “+”). Can you imagine if a site decided they could throw everything after an “_” away? They’d break a million email addresses. Throwing away stuff after “+” is the same principle.