I don’t have ONE email address, I have hundreds. I use a unique email address and password for everything i sign up for. I use a custom domain, and use steam@mydomain.com, or lemmy.vg@mydomain.com etc. so even if one of those sites are breached, all they get is one email and one unique password.
irony is pressing
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osanna@lemmy.vg 6 hours ago
hansolo@lemmy.today 1 hour ago
I used to live like a savage with everything tied to one email, and had a few regular spam shields. Damned fool small smooth brain idiot way of living!
I don’t know why I didn’t do a custom domain 10 years ago. The level of security buffering it offers is worth every penny alone. Someone gets aggressively spammy? Fine, I’ll delete the fucking email address, enjoy the bounceback, dicks. Every breach reinforces the idea that this is a good call, giving data leaks worthless garbage. It genuinely gives me a feeling of freedom.
Vet_Vrolijk@lemmy.ml 6 hours ago
I have seen this approach from other people as well. How do you feel about them knowing your custom domain? Then it’s easier to search for other mail addresses of that domain as well?
I use the aliases from Proton which make me feel a bit more ‘safe’. Downside is that I’m locked into Proton… :)
hansolo@lemmy.today 1 hour ago
I also use a custom domain. Basically, as long as you accept that the domain might be linked to your IRL name, it’s more of a privacy issue in that regard. The custom domain means you don’t ever have to stick with one company forever, also. My email address is portable to any hosting service.
Spammers and scammers work in databases of hundreds of thousands of records they buy. Anything that doesn’t immediately return a hit is chaff to be deleted. There’s no incentive to root through thousands of credential combos and see if your human brain can see a pattern to tweak, short of targeted attacks about you as a person. If the custom domain doesn’t stand out as a business with website worth sending ransomware, what’s the reason to be a target? No one will waste time on a custom domain just in hopes of getting someone’s 27 addresses just to send important dick pill meds spam.
I get zero spam after a year or so with a custom domain. My neutered gmail still gets flooded with spam.
osanna@lemmy.vg 6 hours ago
That’s possibly true, but I still use a long password, so even if they do, I use 150 char characters where possible. So they’re not getting in. Password managers ftw
Jesus_666@lemmy.world 4 hours ago
That has happened to me… twice. Once they sent spam to abuse@<domain> and once to postmaster@<domain>. Both of those are “well-known” addresses that received one spam mail each.
Having your own domain with a catch-all address is rare enough that spammers don’t seem to try to target it.
Meanwhile I set up straight-to-spam rules for a handful of companies that leaked my email address. Very useful.
CosmicTurtle0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 hours ago
I use
thepresident@whitehouse.gov. The only website I’ve found that won’t take this address is quiznos wifiHeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 1 hour ago
huh, i’d try potus at whatever dot shit i’m taking more energy avoiding typing that but spite is one hell of a motivator. might work.
Hupf@feddit.org 4 hours ago
Also, you easily know the source of the breach.
AverageEarthling@feddit.online 3 hours ago
I always make up an email address. fakename@fakedomain.com. If they require a confirmation, I use a forwarder and forward to a yahoo account that I never use and has all fake profile info. Fake name, fake birthday, fake profile pic. I log in maybe twice per year and delete everything.
Echo5@lemmy.world 1 hour ago
Guerillamail.com
bitjunkie@lemmy.world 45 minutes ago
Forwards to adscheaper.com
thedirtyknapkin@lemmy.world 1 hour ago
sadly more and more sites are rejecting many of the easily accessible mail forwarders and temp email services.
Krzd@lemmy.world 2 hours ago
10 Minute E-Mails are your friend.
moendopi@lemmy.world 3 hours ago
Ahhhhh, good idea. A burner trash email.with fake details. I don’t know why I didn’t think of that.
GreenBeanMachine@lemmy.world 6 hours ago
Doesn’t everyone have a shit email they use for porn and other dodgy stuff?
aeronmelon@lemmy.world 6 hours ago
Yeah, a dead one that literally doesn’t function anymore. If they “require confirmation” then I no longer need to read whatever is being gatekept.
Also, 90% of the time, a@b.com works.
Grail@multiverse.soulism.net 6 hours ago
I’m partial to president@whitehouse.gov. Trump can have My porn ads.
Krzd@lemmy.world 2 hours ago
10 Minute E-Mails are the best, you can confirm it exists, and they don’t get any (usable) data
Passerby6497@lemmy.world 6 hours ago
Also, 90% of the time, a@b.com works.
I’m always amused how often fuck@you.com works
Denjin@feddit.uk 6 hours ago
DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world 4 hours ago
Yeah, it’s my gmail address.
Hupf@feddit.org 4 hours ago
Like the Times.
Nusm@peachpie.theatl.social 3 hours ago
theking@graceland.com
toynbee@piefed.social 6 hours ago
Sort of. I have a “catch-all” address (that’s just the most legit looking result to a search for the phrase, I won’t vouch for whether it’s a good site). Basically anything@domain.com goes to spam@domain.com. It’s a bit awkward if you need to respond, but otherwise, it’s good for signing up to sites and it makes it easy to filter out ones that spam you and don’t provide a good unsubscribe link.
MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip 3 hours ago
I have two!
ClownStatue@piefed.social 6 hours ago
My old hotmail gets all that stuff. Awhile back they added some stuff to automatically keep it clean-ish, mainly the sweep feature. Plus I have addy.io that forwards a bunch of stuff to it.
moendopi@lemmy.world 3 hours ago
Ugh, yeah. I got gifted an article and now they won’t leave me alone. I can’t get off their email list without giving them my email that they already have so I can make an account with them I don’t want so I can get off the email list I’m already on. FFS man
Rooster326@programming.dev 3 hours ago
Click ‘Report Spam’