Ask HN: Who really gives your personal info to Intelius, Instant Checkmate, etc?

Re:Ask HN: Who really gives your personal info to Intelius, ... by jszymborski on Monday March 06, 2017 @06:50PM (#13807174)

I've been recently:

1) Segregating automated email to some @customdomain.com address (Yandex and Zoho host vanity domains for free)

2) Forward all email @ that domain to a common inbox

3) Sign-up with [email protected] (e.g: [email protected])

You no-longer need to unsubscribe using dubious e-mail links, just automatically black-hole emails that come from [email protected]

So, far, so good.

EDIT: List formatting

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Re:Ask HN: Who really gives your personal info to Intelius, ... by JoshTriplett on Monday March 06, 2017 @07:09PM (#13807281)

Useful for email, but this is primarily about postal spam.

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Re:Ask HN: Who really gives your personal info to Intelius, ... by jszymborski on Monday March 06, 2017 @09:05PM (#13807762)

somehow misread this entire post

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Re:Ask HN: Who really gives your personal info to Intelius, ... by o_____________o on Wednesday March 08, 2017 @05:34PM (#13824574)

This also helps obscure the very widespread practice of selling data to third parties that identify you with a stable, cross-purpose ID. (Liveramp, et al)

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