Cc Hot Wife: Gmail exposes contact names(n8.engineer) |
Cc Hot Wife: Gmail exposes contact names(n8.engineer) |
The closest I can come to is _maybe_ SMS where names never transit the system, only the phone numbers. So whatever name you associate to a number in your phone stays in your phone.
Email has certainly never worked that way.
I’ve was surprised by an email that revealed my saved contact name recently, and I used to work for an email company.
In WhatsApp I can give a contact name to a number but I don't believe anyone else sees it. Even if I tag them using @ in a group chat - I suspect that everyone just sees the name that they've set for that contact.
Yeah, this _is_ expected behavior, but at the same time I think will catch most people off guard, especially people who aren't as technically inclined.
An email [address] does not have an "official sender name", so it is impossible for anyone to do what the author is suggesting Google should do.
The behaviour is potentially unintuitive, but also an almost inevitable result of how email has always worked.
Wasn't that long ago you could set your FROM header to whatever you wanted and be pretty sure the email would be received.
Billy Mays with OxyClean here and you can't be 100% sure I'm not! This next email trick will shock you.
At some point in the past, while we were dating, I had my wife's phone and changed my contact name to something far more risqué than "Hot Wife". I called her, she saw it come up, we laughed, she changed it back a few days later.
My primary email address was <[first].[last]@gmail.com>. But somehow this name got associated with <[first][last]@gmail.com>. Google notoriously ignores dots in your email address most of the time, but apparently not all of the time. Google Contacts does all sorts of magic when merging multiple contacts as one. Structurally my wife had two contacts for me with different email addresses, but the UI was merging them into a single display contact. Since we used the form with the dot in it, nobody noticed....
... until about 10 years later. We were now married, had kids, and we're in the process of interviewing to hire an au pair (a live-in, foreign exchange nanny). My wife emailed a prospective au pair, the agency, and CCed me, but fat fingered the email address without the dot.
We were dropped by the au pair agency and had to go with a different one.
Like the opposite effect as discussed here. o365 is probably doing the same