Re:Belgian man has been receiving pizzas he never ordered fo...
by kyuudou on Saturday June 06, 2020 @07:18PM
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For over a decade I've used hushmail's aliasing feature which allows you to create such custom emails (e.g. [email protected]) on the fly almost instantaneously. I use one per service that requires an email to sign up. Works great.
You can do it with the free account, too.
Just delete one if you are obviously getting spam because of a service selling their email lists. Which is a reality for "free" services. Bonus points because you can identify exactly who it is that is doing this and have the option of publicly shaming them.
I use a custom email for each service. Like [email protected] for Amazon, xyz.ycombinator@... and so on.
All email is forwarded to a single catch-all account from a good provider, so it is just as convenient to use.
But it is trivial to isolate what emails came from which service, who has leaked my email to spammers, to just block a individual recipient, ... . It also makes it easy to have multiple accounts without the annoyance of a fallback email.
I wish I had switched to this method much earlier.
Ideally that domain would be used by at least a few hundred people to prevent associating via domain name though, with different prefixes (see xyz above) for each user.