Spammers know to just cut out the +whatever. It's a simple regex to keep those from even getting into a database.

The + has no special meaning in the standards, and thus removing it will just result in invalid addresses in many cases…

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AlexandrB 20 minutes ago | parent [-]

Doesn't matter. Most email services[1] use it the way Gmail does and spam is a numbers game. Losing a few valid addresses is worth correlating all those other addresses for most spammers.

Standards only matter to nerds like us.

[1] https://proton.me/blog/what-is-email-alias#5

	▲	Ferret7446 2 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		Except plus address users are also less likely to be receptive to spam, so it's probably better to just not bother