Doesn’t everyone have a shit email they use for porn and other dodgy stuff?
irony is pressing
Submitted 2 months ago by slothrop@lemmy.ca to [deleted]
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GreenBeanMachine@lemmy.world 2 months ago
aeronmelon@lemmy.world 2 months 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 2 months ago
I’m partial to president@whitehouse.gov. Trump can have My porn ads.
Passerby6497@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Also, 90% of the time, a@b.com works.
I’m always amused how often fuck@you.com works
Krzd@lemmy.world 2 months ago
10 Minute E-Mails are the best, you can confirm it exists, and they don’t get any (usable) data
Denjin@feddit.uk 2 months ago
toynbee@piefed.social 2 months 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.
forestbeasts@pawb.social 2 months ago
psst, if you have a catchall like that, you can probably SEND from anything@yourdomain.com too! We sure can.
You just need a client that lets you type in the From field. Some do, some don’t.
– Frost
DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Yeah, it’s my gmail address.
ClownStatue@piefed.social 2 months 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.
Hupf@feddit.org 2 months ago
Like the Times.
Nusm@peachpie.theatl.social 2 months ago
theking@graceland.com
MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip 2 months ago
I have two!
SpeakerToLampposts@lemmy.world 2 months ago
ytg@sopuli.xyz 2 months ago
To be fair, I found a freely accessible version of this with a single search. Also to be fair, it wasn’t the published version.
moendopi@lemmy.world 2 months 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 2 months ago
Click ‘Report Spam’
mic_check_one_two@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
Yeah, that shit would get auto-filtered straight into the spam folder.
Alwaysnownevernotme@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Report every post they send you. It will be there probably blem eventually.
Dave@lemmy.nz 2 months ago
I thought the US had some law about unsubscribing within two clicks r something?
doingthestuff@lemy.lol 2 months ago
fuck the times
Alberat@lemmy.world 2 months ago
what’s wrong with the times?
jali67@lemmy.zip 2 months ago
Billionaire owner caters to bullshit ideals in their opinion pieces all the time. Lots of great journalists work for them and The Athletic though.
Bluescluestoothpaste@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
They’re dogshit lol
dansemacabreingalone@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
They were founded as a reaction to the other big paper’s european correspondent being sorta communist.
Theyve only gotten more reactionary since.
AverageEarthling@feddit.online 2 months 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.
moendopi@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Ahhhhh, good idea. A burner trash email.with fake details. I don’t know why I didn’t think of that.
Krzd@lemmy.world 2 months ago
10 Minute E-Mails are your friend.
itsgroundhogdayagain@lemmy.ml 2 months ago
Make your first or last name the name of the website so you know who sold your email address to spammers.
mic_check_one_two@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
I have a catch-all email domain, and this is exactly what I do. Walmart gets “walmart@example.com”, Target gets “target@example.com”, etc… All of them go to the same inbox, so I always know which email address they think I have. If I start getting spam addressed to walmart@example.com, I know Walmart sold my info. I can just filter anything addressed to that account straight into my spam folder.
thedirtyknapkin@lemmy.world 2 months ago
sadly more and more sites are rejecting many of the easily accessible mail forwarders and temp email services.
Echo5@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Guerillamail.com
bitjunkie@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Forwards to adscheaper.com
caligine@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 months ago
Alwaysnownevernotme@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Lmao they never consider that you have like. 5 emails.
What a fucking concept.
Ravel@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
And getting a lot more difficult to find email that doesn’t want your phone number, while getting more difficult to buy a phone without giving out your personal information.
LightYagami@lemmus.org 2 months ago
Use the element zapper mode in uBlock Origin. Makes the shit go away
Nyadia@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 months ago
Except for when the text isn’t actually loaded underneath and you only get like an extra paragraph at most.
LightYagami@lemmus.org 2 months ago
Yeah, happens to me too. Sometimes it works and sometimes it won’t. Just have to keep trying. Or use SimpleLogin or Addy for email aliases
osanna@lemmy.vg 2 months ago
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.
Vet_Vrolijk@lemmy.ml 2 months 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… :)
osanna@lemmy.vg 2 months 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 2 months 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.
hansolo@lemmy.today 2 months 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.
CosmicTurtle0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
I use
thepresident@whitehouse.gov. The only website I’ve found that won’t take this address is quiznos wifiHeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 2 months 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 2 months ago
Also, you easily know the source of the breach.
hansolo@lemmy.today 2 months 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.