Does it have any significance?
I like to use the scientific names of common things, like vegetables.
Love it
i own a domain, and have a catchall account which forwards to a single address.
any time i sign up for a service, i use their business name as the prefix.
for example : i decide to go shop at a store called Mold Gravy, and the clerk tells me i can save 15% on today’s purchase by giving them my email address. i tell them it’s moldgravy@mydomain.com.
this keeps my actual main email account from getting polluted, and also if i notice an increase in spam, i can see which company either sold my fake email address, or were compromised, and the i can simply block it.
it costs $10/yr for a domain name, and another $5/month for hosting. well worth it.
ETA : there’s a lot of really great suggestions here, not only in response to me, but also in this whole thread!
I do this. It’s excellent, no regrets. You can use sublevel domains for more organization
- Email@shopping.domain
- email@banking.domain
Etc, so it’s easier to set alert and category filters. For instance I disable new mail notifications for shopping.domain addresses
If I know a email will truly be temporary, then I just one of those 10 minute email services.
gonna have to see about perhaps implementing this…
I do the same but also have a few trap addresses nobody sane should see or email to, but is easy for scrapers to grab. Easy way to train the spam filter.
Got any examples?
I do the exact same thing, except instead of paying monthly for hosting, I pay $12/year for addy.io. Super reliable service and I can easily manage my email aliases with their phone app.
ooh! the cheapskate part of me likes this option!
Genius!
Would you recommend this for a non technical person?
Yooo this is actually genius.
Did this forever first with Google, at least them I’d know instantly who sold my info.
Now I do the same with my mailbox.com account, and delete the aliases occasionally.
I’ve done this as well for a number of years (probably close to 5 at this point) and have only noticed one service that got hacked and my domain got leaked. No spam at all really, but I’ve stayed on top of unsubscribing to all marketing emails
https://www.notcheckmark.com/2022/06/catch-all-domain/
(currently not reachable, archived version: https://web.archive.org/web/20240804081128/https://www.notcheckmark.com/2022/06/catch-all-domain/)
some interesting points in this article, but none that are dealbreakers for me continuing the way i currently handle my email. the one example of : “your email is Hilton? do you work here?” typically no employee actually cares enough to ask that question. i have been running my email this way for 20 years (ish), so my sample size is large enough to suggest my results are reliable.
still great food for thought, though!
True, and I’m happy that you didn’t take it as criticism. Just wanted to add another perspective :)
can’t learn new things, if other perspectives are angrily dismissed!
Its my old gmail account.
That’s really poor OPSEC. I just visited your github and found the email, because you have no clue how git works. haveibeenpwned.com shows that this email is in 23 data breaches. Now, I can download the ParkMobile data breach and find your license plate and possibly phone number. If I would have the Slickwraps or Straffic breach then I would also be able to get your address. I can also download Collection #1 and get one or few of your old passwords. Your OPSEC can be broken in few minutes by a random internet stranger.
It’s the main email that I have been using for almost 20 years. Now it is my junk email.
I use my main account for that. I just unsubscribe from all news letters immediately so I don’t generally get any spam.
It’s my final yahoo email. Used it as a kid so obviously it’s already full of spam, now I just use it for even more spam
Do you understand that if someone would find this email, then they would be able to get an incredible amount of information about you from data breaches?
From me as a kid with my totally accurate information I put in, sure.
My junk mail address is the name people hear when I say my actual name. So I guess it’s the more common, phonetically similar name to mine.
Proton. They have a mail aliases feature where you can create temporary email addresses which forward to your account. Then, if you start getting junk you didn’t ask for, or have trouble unsubscribing, you just delete the alias.
My email comes with masked email options, so if I need an email I just hit create and it generates one that forwards to/from my account. Just as easy to block or delete them.
Sounds good. Which provider do you use?
I don’t know who OP uses, but I know that Fastmail has that feature and its pretty handy.
That was what I’m using. With Protonmail they bought SimpleLogin and it was more or less the same.
Simplelogin. I have like 500 email addresses, all single use
It’s my Hotmail account
Same. The sweep feature is great for things from online shops I haven’t unsubscribed from yet.
That’s hot
Duck duck go has generative email addresses. Seem to work pretty well.
Anything that needs an unconfirmed signup, I’ve always used Don B. Sonozi - godfather@mafia.org
I figure that one day a spammer will learn regret.
It’s my cringe weeb account from when I was, like 10. I’m talking “NekoOniBakaChan_xx@wtf.com” levels of cringe.
