yahoo mail also offers disposable email addresses
subtext@lemmy.world 2 months ago
There’s really nothing to be done about the compromised email address, but I would really recommend using a service that creates unique email addresses per service that you sign up for to mitigate the blast radius when one service gets pwned. It takes a long while, but thankfully privacy laws are stronger now and it’s easier to force a company to either delete your information or change the email they have for you.
Some potential services to consider include:
lurch@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
thebestaquaman@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Thanks! I’ll definitely look into that, though the only issue I can imagine is keeping track of which email that goes to which service (I’m one of those kinds of people that uses “Forgot my password” effectively as a password manager, don’t hate me for it, I have reasons).
jqubed@lemmy.world 2 months ago
This is also a good reason to use an actual password manager
thebestaquaman@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Since you chose to point it out: My reason is that I regularly need to be able to log into things on a non-personal machine, sometimes without access to my phone. So no, a password manager for all my accounts is out of the picture. I either write stuff down, remember it, or - sometimes - forget it and need to reset my password.
whitecold@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Not having access to your phone and having to log in on other computers doesn’t rule out using password managers at all. You can use bitwarden’s web vault (or self-host vaultwarden). As long as you can log in to bitwarden web vault, you can access your passwords anytime, anywhere.
nokturne213@sopuli.xyz 2 months ago
subtext@lemmy.world 2 months ago
They all have a system for keeping track of that, I know iCloud automatically assigns a URL to each based on where you created it, or Fastmail (which I use) has a comment field and automatically tags each email as it comes to your inbox.
It takes more than zero effort to create it, so it’s too much effort for my wife, but I absolutely love it.