At that point, just get a custom domain with a catch-all email system. Any emails sent to the @[domain] address will hit your inbox, so you can do things like Target@[domain] and Walmart@[domain]. Then if you start getting spam from one of those, you know who leaked it and you can filter them into spam. All without needing to go through the hassle of creating a new email address.

Hell, my password generator (Bitwarden) even has the option to create custom usernames for a catch-all system. It can either do them randomly (like the passwords) or pull them from whatever site I’m making the account on. So like it’ll pull the site’s title and use that as the e-mail address, then append the @[domain] to the end automatically.

[–] techgearwhips@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

This is exactly what I need to do. I have a custom domain attached to Protonmail. I've been using duck duck go for aliases with Bitwarden but this solution sounds perfect. I always wondered what that catch all option meant.

[–] Moonrise2473@feddit.it 1 points 2 years ago

I do that

[–] ultratiem@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 years ago

Same. Have been doing this for like 5 years now. Oddly enough the spam that comes in is never from any of my aliases. Time well spent 🙃

All kidding aside, it’s great that I can I just abandon them for random accounts that have nothing on me, further reducing the actual front facingness of my real email. If I this feature was there from the start, I’d never have spam!

[–] dmonzel@lemm.ee 18 points 2 years ago (2 children)

If you're in the States, maybe take a peek at Firefox Relay.

[–] shiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiit@sh.itjust.works 17 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Other countries are available:

Free ⁨Relay⁩ is available in most countries. ⁨Relay Premium⁩ is available in Austria, Bulgaria, Belgium, Canada, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malaysia, Malta, Netherlands, New Zealand, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Singapore, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, United Kingdom, and the United States.

[–] dmonzel@lemm.ee 17 points 2 years ago (1 children)

And to think, I just got downvoted to fuck the other day because someone claimed wasn't available in the UK. lol

Thank you for clearing that up.

[–] shiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiit@sh.itjust.works 7 points 2 years ago (1 children)

People on the internet downvoting without fact checking first - business as usual then!

[–] Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 2 years ago

Both hiveminds are very guilty in that department.
At least you can now see the down-/upvotes in the UI instead of the aggregate amount.

[–] akilou@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 years ago

Or simple login or Proton Pass

[–] Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 2 years ago

Icreated a new email on proton for tracker and piracy stuff. No need to have it associated with my regular email/persona

[–] ShellMonkey@lemmy.socdojo.com 6 points 2 years ago

Get your multiple personalities on. Costs nothing to create a second identity for separate functions, bonus if there's no cross contamination in the form of using one for the other's recovery info.

[–] netchami@sh.itjust.works 5 points 2 years ago

Check out the Privacy Guides page on Email Aliasing Services

[–] Zak8022@lemm.ee 3 points 2 years ago

I recently started doing this for everything with Simple Login. You can create aliases either ahead of time or configure them to be ad hoc. I went the route of a custom subdomain, but that’s not required.

[–] FinalBoy1975@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

Yes. With VPN. And so many lessons learned after about how you didn’t have to do it, but you did it.

[–] mp3@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 years ago

You can go with an email proxy service, to name a few

Firefox Relay
SimpleLogin
Addy (Previously AnonAddy)

[–] netchami@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 years ago

SimpleLogin allows you to create private email aliases, all emails sent to an alias will be forwarded to your real email address. I've been using this for over a year and it's been great. If you pay for Proton Mail, you also get SimpleLogin Premium for free.