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Re:Match.com Used Fake Ads to Swindle Users, F.T.C. Says by input_sh on Thursday September 26, 2019 @02:09AM (#21078666)
Pay for your email address to solve the problem. On my email provider, I can create a catchall alias: *@example.com will end up in my [email protected] mailbox.

So, instead of doing [email protected], I can do [email protected].

Re:Match.com Used Fake Ads to Swindle Users, F.T.C. Says by systemcluster on Thursday September 26, 2019 @03:05AM (#21078892)
If your email provider does not offer a catchall alias option, this is also achievable with an email forwarder (e.g. mailgun), provided you are ok with giving another service provider access to the content of your received mails.
Re:Match.com Used Fake Ads to Swindle Users, F.T.C. Says by manigandham on Thursday September 26, 2019 @04:34AM (#21079232)
Technically most email is not encrypted so every single mail server in the middle also has access.
Re:Match.com Used Fake Ads to Swindle Users, F.T.C. Says by mavhc on Thursday September 26, 2019 @03:20AM (#21078945)
If only it were possible to encrypt emails, oh well
Re:Match.com Used Fake Ads to Swindle Users, F.T.C. Says by CharlesColeman on Thursday September 26, 2019 @10:47AM (#21081368)
> So, instead of doing [email protected], I can do [email protected].

Fastmail has an interesting variation of this that supports multiple users on the same domain: [email protected]. My wife and I both use that feature heavily on our domain.