For e-mails, you can just get firefox relay with your own subdomain and generate infinite e-mail masks for 1$ a month.
I usually take “[email protected]” for example. It’s pretty great because you just make the masks on the fly.
I’ve been doing this for several years now (not specifically that service, since I have my own domains). It’s really nice knowing exactly who sold your email to the spam bots, because it’s right in the address. Super easy to block once that happens.
Yeah, I bought some Chinese batteries a while ago and they sold/leaked my info to a dozen other scam companies. None of which I was able to unsubscribe from. Just ticked a box to disable the email and that was the end of that. If I hadn’t, they would have been blowing up my inbox for the rest of eternity with no way to stop it or know where it came from.
If you use the same email everywhere, they can try brute-forcing the password by using the email instead of your username. Give them less to go on. $1/month is absolutely worth it to prevent an important account from getting hacked.
For users of Gmail, I can confirm this works and you can even set it up so that address+nameofshop goes to a folder called “nameofshop.”
You can also apparently add a dot anywhere before @gmail.com and still receive the email. I haven’t tried this one, but the last time I mentioned this someone said it was part of the email standard, so presumably it works.
I don’t know of tricks specifically of this vein for proton mail, but I do know you can setup a catch-all address so, for example, something addressed to [email protected] goes instead to [email protected].
I’ve not tried SimpleLogin, but apparently it offers similar functionality.
I didn’t know that actually. They can still deduce your actual email address from that, but for the identification of the culprit that would work as well.
The email mask is free without a subdomain. I use it for the odd random signups where the only thing I’m really interested in is not having another nobhead add me to their spam lists.
That’s how I used it initially as well, but chose to get a subdomain to identify shops and services that had data breaches/leaks, pass on the email to other shops and services, etc.
For e-mails, you can just get firefox relay with your own subdomain and generate infinite e-mail masks for 1$ a month. I usually take “[email protected]” for example. It’s pretty great because you just make the masks on the fly.
I’ve been doing this for several years now (not specifically that service, since I have my own domains). It’s really nice knowing exactly who sold your email to the spam bots, because it’s right in the address. Super easy to block once that happens.
Yeah, I bought some Chinese batteries a while ago and they sold/leaked my info to a dozen other scam companies. None of which I was able to unsubscribe from. Just ticked a box to disable the email and that was the end of that. If I hadn’t, they would have been blowing up my inbox for the rest of eternity with no way to stop it or know where it came from.
addy.io is another service which I’m using with my own domain. I know there exists a third, but I can’t remember the name.
Yup.
If you use the same email everywhere, they can try brute-forcing the password by using the email instead of your username. Give them less to go on. $1/month is absolutely worth it to prevent an important account from getting hacked.
What about plus addressing which is supported by most major mail services for free? You can just use [email protected] for example.
For users of Gmail, I can confirm this works and you can even set it up so that address+nameofshop goes to a folder called “nameofshop.”
You can also apparently add a dot anywhere before @gmail.com and still receive the email. I haven’t tried this one, but the last time I mentioned this someone said it was part of the email standard, so presumably it works.
I don’t know of tricks specifically of this vein for proton mail, but I do know you can setup a catch-all address so, for example, something addressed to [email protected] goes instead to [email protected].
I’ve not tried SimpleLogin, but apparently it offers similar functionality.
can confirm, [email protected] works just the same as [email protected]
I didn’t know that actually. They can still deduce your actual email address from that, but for the identification of the culprit that would work as well.
The email mask is free without a subdomain. I use it for the odd random signups where the only thing I’m really interested in is not having another nobhead add me to their spam lists.
That’s how I used it initially as well, but chose to get a subdomain to identify shops and services that had data breaches/leaks, pass on the email to other shops and services, etc.
And then I can just block that mask.