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Is this common on a SaaS site? My experience with landing pages is that people will cheerfully enter their work email address without a second thought.


Cheerfully enter my work email!? I am way more reserved with that than my personal address!!


Don’t you have a second -t testing email? Actually having one, I can say that there is nothing wrong happening inside it, despite it was used for lots of “seems legit” evaluation registrations.

(Not that I’ll check it often, answer questions or connect to audio notifier; this somewhat defeats the purpose we’re discussing.)


Me, too! I may have been as surprised as you.


Can't speak for everyone, but it is common on any site.

The assumption is that they _will_ spam, sell the data or do something comparably exciting, so it's nearly always a disposable address first, changing it to a real address later if needed.




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