The "there is something wrong with you if you are at all off the beaten path" has cropped up a lot more for me recently; two examples both from 2026:

1. You can't use Firefox with our website (when I got this popup, I thought I had been transported back in time 20 years, but with Chrome substituted for IE).

2. You can't sign up for accounts with an e-mail from a "custom domain"

2a. I ran some tests; it's the domain itself, not the host, so e.g. foo@gmail.com is allowed but not a foo@somewhereelse.com, even if hosted by google).

2b. After a bit of back-and-forth with support: "No, we won't tell you the list of allowed domains, but gmail and hotmail both will work."

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throwaway093020 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Vote with your wallet. I've only experienced two instances where systems wouldn't accept my custom email domain. One was a bank. I proceeded to close the account.

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adithyassekhar 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Reddit used to allow that till last week and now they started rejecting those emails. RIP temporary mail services and throwaway accounts.

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crtasm 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Incredible... if I ever get that I'll enjoy pointing out I've had my domain longer than gmail has existed.

	▲	tavavex an hour ago \| parent [-]
		They don't care about how much older, more secure, more trustworthy and so on your domain is. That's not the issue they're having. The issue is that you are 'abnormal', and it is in the common interest of tech companies to make any signs of abnormality (read: not-total compliance to their whims) to be inherently suspicious and nefarious behavior that needs to be curtailed.