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.
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.. :)
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
That has happened to me... twice. Once they sent spam to abuse@ and once to postmaster@. 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.
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.
You know how you set up junk mail accounts? I feel like that one is set up for kooks and the other one is set up for work. But I'm not sure which is which anymore.
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.
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.
As much as I'm mildly technically competent, I tend to interact with my email from a browser. Generally speaking, it's not that easy to alter headers in that environment.
Oh, you don't need to go header-diving or anything. Just a client that lets you do that. Dunno if any browser-based ones do, but they certainly technically could.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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osanna@lemmy.vg · 63 pts · 139d
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 · 38 pts · 139d
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 · 18 pts · 139d
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
iamthetot@piefed.ca · 8 pts · 139d
Well try aren't brute forcing 150 chars, that's for sure, but don't mistake that as the same as "they're not getting in".
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 139d
seriously, once they know it's 150 characters of hunter2 they're in
Jesus_666@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 139d
That has happened to me... twice. Once they sent spam to abuse@ and once to postmaster@. 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 · 9 pts · 139d
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 · 18 pts · 139d
I use
thepresident@whitehouse.gov. The only website I've found that won't take this address is quiznos wifiHeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 139d
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.
or a.scalia at scotus dot gov i'm pretty sure that one is real
CosmicTurtle0@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 4 pts · 139d
It's in my contacts so Gboard brings it up as a suggestion after writing
the.HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 139d
You know how you set up junk mail accounts? I feel like that one is set up for kooks and the other one is set up for work. But I'm not sure which is which anymore.
Hupf@feddit.org · 12 pts · 139d
Also, you easily know the source of the breach.
hansolo@lemmy.today · 11 pts · 139d
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.
GreenBeanMachine@lemmy.world · 27 pts · 139d
aeronmelon@lemmy.world · 23 pts · 139d
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 · 21 pts · 139d
I'm partial to president@whitehouse.gov. Trump can have My porn ads.
aeronmelon@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 139d
It’s the 867-5309 of emails.
Passerby6497@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 139d
I'm always amused how often fuck@you.com works
jaybone@lemmy.zip · 6 pts · 139d
I feel bad for whoever owns you.com
Seems like it would be an innocent new agey spiritual affirmation kind of site. Actually, it’s probably some bullshit, so never mind.
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 139d
if i owned Fuck at you dot com i'd keep it set up for spam just for that reason.
but i have my own private spam email addresses. like three of them, for different identities.
forrgott@lemmy.zip · 5 pts · 139d
I prefer NoneOfYour@damn-business.com
Krzd@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 139d
10 Minute E-Mails are the best, you can confirm it exists, and they don't get any (usable) data
Denjin@feddit.uk · 9 pts · 139d
https://temp-mail.org/
toynbee@piefed.social · 6 pts · 139d
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 pts · 138d
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
toynbee@piefed.social · 1 pts · 138d
As much as I'm mildly technically competent, I tend to interact with my email from a browser. Generally speaking, it's not that easy to alter headers in that environment.
forestbeasts@pawb.social · 1 pts · 138d
Oh, you don't need to go header-diving or anything. Just a client that lets you do that. Dunno if any browser-based ones do, but they certainly technically could.
DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 139d
Yeah, it's my gmail address.
ClownStatue@piefed.social · 4 pts · 139d
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 · 4 pts · 139d
Like the Times.
Nusm@peachpie.theatl.social · 2 pts · 139d
theking@graceland.com
MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 139d
I have two!
SpeakerToLampposts@lemmy.world · 24 pts · 138d
Reminds me of this:
ytg@sopuli.xyz · 1 pts · 138d
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 · 23 pts · 139d
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 · 22 pts · 139d
Click 'Report Spam'
mic_check_one_two@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 2 pts · 139d
Yeah, that shit would get auto-filtered straight into the spam folder.
Alwaysnownevernotme@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 139d
Report every post they send you. It will be their problem eventually.
Dave@lemmy.nz · 1 pts · 139d
I thought the US had some law about unsubscribing within two clicks r something?
AverageEarthling@feddit.online · 12 pts · 139d
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 · 7 pts · 139d
Ahhhhh, good idea. A burner trash email.with fake details. I don't know why I didn't think of that.
Krzd@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 139d
10 Minute E-Mails are your friend.
thedirtyknapkin@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 139d
sadly more and more sites are rejecting many of the easily accessible mail forwarders and temp email services.
itsgroundhogdayagain@lemmy.ml · 3 pts · 139d
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 pts · 139d
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.
Echo5@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 139d
Guerillamail.com
bitjunkie@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 139d
Forwards to adscheaper.com
doingthestuff@lemy.lol · 10 pts · 139d
fuck the times
Alberat@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 139d
what's wrong with the times?
jali67@lemmy.zip · 3 pts · 139d
Billionaire owner caters to bullshit ideals in their opinion pieces all the time. Lots of great journalists work for them and The Athletic though.
Alberat@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 138d
which billionaires? what's the athletic?
Bluescluestoothpaste@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 139d
They're dogshit lol
dansemacabreingalone@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 1 pts · 138d
They were founded as a reaction to the other big paper's european correspondent being sorta communist.
Theyve only gotten more reactionary since.
Alberat@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 138d
what's a good alternative?
dansemacabreingalone@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 1 pts · 138d
For the puzzles? I have a sudoku app on my phone im quite fond of.
Alberat@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 138d
i heard committing sudoku is a sin
caligine@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 3 pts · 139d
https://www.emailnator.com/
Alwaysnownevernotme@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 139d
Lmao they never consider that you have like. 5 emails.
What a fucking concept.
LightYagami@lemmus.org · 1 pts · 138d
Use the element zapper mode in uBlock Origin. Makes the shit go away
Nyadia@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 3 pts · 138d
Except for when the text isn't actually loaded underneath and you only get like an extra paragraph at most.
LightYagami@lemmus.org · 1 pts · 136d
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
Ravel@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 138d
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.