You don’t even need a custom domain to do this. Google, Ms and many others support aliases with a plus (+) sign in the recipient adress.
so if you got john@gmail.com you can freely create new aliases like john+ea@gmail.com, john+amazon@gmail.com and they will all land at john@gmail.com
If your address gets leaked, you can just block emails to that recipient.
I’ve done this for most of my accounts and it works great.
Gmail labels are great but they’re not universal, and are easy to strip out.
A lot of sites:
I have an email address I have only ever used with labels but still get spam to the non-labeled address. Spammers and email harvesters are very much aware of this trick, so it only works on legitimate sites.
I havent had a single site not working with a plus
ever had a lobotomy? doesn’t mean they don’t exist.
Fair, just saying i havent had issues with sites, might be europe specific.
If you are bored or a nagging ass like me, you could remind those websites that the rfc (which is the standard for email) expicitly allows plus in emails and they need to allow that.
There are plenty of them, just wait!
Did not exist when I started in 95 😑
thermal_shock@lemmy.world 1 month ago
lots of places catching on, won’t let you use + sign when you sign up