Re:Tell HN: After 10 years of experiments, custom username e...
by IanNorris on Monday August 15, 2022 @01:56PM
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I've been doing this for about 5 years. So far none of my company specific email addresses have been leaked, but it has let me black hole some emails (eg Intel) because their unsubscribe systems are broken.
I wish I'd been more aggressive at switching to it as the one account I got the most spam from was Kickstarter when they got compromised. I'd say 70% of all my spam came from that one breach. That unfortunately was an email address I can't burn.
I use SimpleLogin.io now after hand rolling a solution for a few years after I saw it linked from a HN post. The caveat is that my family members that hang off one of my domains struggle to understand it, despite them only seeing the personal Gmail account I created to receive their email to.
I wish I'd been more aggressive at switching to it as the one account I got the most spam from was Kickstarter when they got compromised. I'd say 70% of all my spam came from that one breach. That unfortunately was an email address I can't burn.
I use SimpleLogin.io now after hand rolling a solution for a few years after I saw it linked from a HN post. The caveat is that my family members that hang off one of my domains struggle to understand it, despite them only seeing the personal Gmail account I created to receive their email to.