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Re:Too Much Dark Money in Almonds by vinay427 on Saturday September 21, 2019 @07:14AM (#21034629)
You can use Gmail with the plus '+' tags or extra dots '.' in the address.

e.g. [email protected], [email protected], etc.

I did this for years before switching to a custom domain and it worked very well for me.

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Re:Too Much Dark Money in Almonds by danShumway on Saturday September 21, 2019 @09:07AM (#21035126)
The problem is that most spammers know how to strip the plus tags, or can strip the dots to associate you across multiple accounts.

I think of throwaway addresses the same way as I think of a VPN. I shouldn't be the only person on the domain I'm using, and there shouldn't be any persistent information in the address.

With Fastmail, the only information I have to give up is that it is a Fastmail account. I can have `<some_random_string>@fastmail.com`, which makes it much harder for an advertiser or spammer to link my identity from that email to another one.

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