Another solution is to create a secondary, anonymous email that you can use to sign up to any suspicious sites with, or as an alternate account for gaming and social media, this will lower the chances of your work email being compromised.
At my previous startup, Simpo, I asked my team to outright block registrations with personal email addresses, fearing that those users were just "not serious."
It was a mistake.
Sometimes users sign up with a personal or secondary email address because they want to check a product out before giving away their important contact info.
Rather than preventing personal email registrations, I now believe that as B2B SaaS founders, we should absolutely allow users to "kick the tires" of a product (with whatever info they want to give us), and then tactfully ask for their info when they've seen value in the product and want to stay in touch.
There's an interactive demo on the main site (courtesy of the good folks at Arcade), so you can play with it, and I'd be delighted to talk to anyone individually who's interested in having a conversation.
Can't wait to hear what you all think and to chat – I love this place :)
Most of us spend our browsing days dealing with various intrusive demands: GDPR stuff, anti-adblock screens, popovers demanding your email address, apps and widgets begging you for positive reviews, etc. I'm beyond tired of sites and services that behave like this. Any service that's scrutinizing what kind of email I use, and then bothering me about it, is an immediately bad first impression, and makes me wonder what other grubby stuff it's doing behind the scenes. (And the tone—"hey there! I noticed..."—is something I associate with sites that whine about adblocking. It's not tactful so much as grating.)
