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[–] osanna@lemmy.vg 62 points 1 week ago (4 children)

I don't have ONE email address, I have hundreds. I use a unique email address and password for everything i sign up for. I use a custom domain, and use steam@mydomain.com, or lemmy.vg@mydomain.com etc. so even if one of those sites are breached, all they get is one email and one unique password.

[–] Vet_Vrolijk@lemmy.ml 37 points 1 week ago (3 children)

I have seen this approach from other people as well. How do you feel about them knowing your custom domain? Then it's easier to search for other mail addresses of that domain as well?

I use the aliases from Proton which make me feel a bit more 'safe'. Downside is that I'm locked into Proton.. :)

[–] osanna@lemmy.vg 18 points 1 week ago (1 children)

That’s possibly true, but I still use a long password, so even if they do, I use 150 char characters where possible. So they’re not getting in. Password managers ftw

[–] iamthetot@piefed.ca 8 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Well try aren't brute forcing 150 chars, that's for sure, but don't mistake that as the same as "they're not getting in".

seriously, once they know it's 150 characters of hunter2 they're in

[–] Jesus_666@lemmy.world 13 points 1 week ago

That has happened to me... twice. Once they sent spam to abuse@ and once to postmaster@. Both of those are "well-known" addresses that received one spam mail each.

Having your own domain with a catch-all address is rare enough that spammers don't seem to try to target it.

Meanwhile I set up straight-to-spam rules for a handful of companies that leaked my email address. Very useful.

[–] hansolo@lemmy.today 9 points 1 week ago

I also use a custom domain. Basically, as long as you accept that the domain might be linked to your IRL name, it's more of a privacy issue in that regard. The custom domain means you don't ever have to stick with one company forever, also. My email address is portable to any hosting service.

Spammers and scammers work in databases of hundreds of thousands of records they buy. Anything that doesn't immediately return a hit is chaff to be deleted. There's no incentive to root through thousands of credential combos and see if your human brain can see a pattern to tweak, short of targeted attacks about you as a person. If the custom domain doesn't stand out as a business with website worth sending ransomware, what's the reason to be a target? No one will waste time on a custom domain just in hopes of getting someone's 27 addresses just to send important dick pill meds spam.

I get zero spam after a year or so with a custom domain. My neutered gmail still gets flooded with spam.

[–] CosmicTurtle0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 18 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I use thepresident@whitehouse.gov. The only website I've found that won't take this address is quiznos wifi

[–] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

huh, i'd try potus at whatever dot shit i'm taking more energy avoiding typing that but spite is one hell of a motivator. might work.

or a.scalia at scotus dot gov i'm pretty sure that one is real

[–] CosmicTurtle0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

It's in my contacts so Gboard brings it up as a suggestion after writing the.

You know how you set up junk mail accounts? I feel like that one is set up for kooks and the other one is set up for work. But I'm not sure which is which anymore.

[–] Hupf@feddit.org 12 points 1 week ago

Also, you easily know the source of the breach.

[–] hansolo@lemmy.today 11 points 1 week ago

I used to live like a savage with everything tied to one email, and had a few regular spam shields. Damned fool small smooth brain idiot way of living!

I don't know why I didn't do a custom domain 10 years ago. The level of security buffering it offers is worth every penny alone. Someone gets aggressively spammy? Fine, I'll delete the fucking email address, enjoy the bounceback, dicks. Every breach reinforces the idea that this is a good call, giving data leaks worthless garbage. It genuinely gives me a feeling of freedom.

[–] GreenBeanMachine@lemmy.world 27 points 1 week ago (8 children)

Doesn't everyone have a shit email they use for porn and other dodgy stuff?

[–] aeronmelon@lemmy.world 23 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Yeah, a dead one that literally doesn’t function anymore. If they “require confirmation” then I no longer need to read whatever is being gatekept.

Also, 90% of the time, a@b.com works.

[–] Grail@multiverse.soulism.net 21 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I'm partial to president@whitehouse.gov. Trump can have My porn ads.

[–] aeronmelon@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago

It’s the 867-5309 of emails.

[–] Passerby6497@lemmy.world 10 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Also, 90% of the time, a@b.com works.

I'm always amused how often fuck@you.com works

[–] jaybone@lemmy.zip 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I feel bad for whoever owns you.com

Seems like it would be an innocent new agey spiritual affirmation kind of site. Actually, it’s probably some bullshit, so never mind.

[–] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

if i owned Fuck at you dot com i'd keep it set up for spam just for that reason.

but i have my own private spam email addresses. like three of them, for different identities.

[–] Krzd@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

10 Minute E-Mails are the best, you can confirm it exists, and they don't get any (usable) data

[–] toynbee@piefed.social 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Sort of. I have a "catch-all" address (that's just the most legit looking result to a search for the phrase, I won't vouch for whether it's a good site). Basically anything@domain.com goes to spam@domain.com. It's a bit awkward if you need to respond, but otherwise, it's good for signing up to sites and it makes it easy to filter out ones that spam you and don't provide a good unsubscribe link.

[–] forestbeasts@pawb.social 2 points 1 week ago (2 children)

psst, if you have a catchall like that, you can probably SEND from anything@yourdomain.com too! We sure can.

You just need a client that lets you type in the From field. Some do, some don't.

-- Frost

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[–] DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago

Yeah, it's my gmail address.

[–] Hupf@feddit.org 4 points 1 week ago

Like the Times.

[–] ClownStatue@piefed.social 4 points 1 week ago

My old hotmail gets all that stuff. Awhile back they added some stuff to automatically keep it clean-ish, mainly the sweep feature. Plus I have addy.io that forwards a bunch of stuff to it.

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[–] SpeakerToLampposts@lemmy.world 24 points 1 week ago (1 children)
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[–] moendopi@lemmy.world 23 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Ugh, yeah. I got gifted an article and now they won't leave me alone. I can't get off their email list without giving them my email that they already have so I can make an account with them I don't want so I can get off the email list I'm already on. FFS man

[–] Rooster326@programming.dev 22 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Yeah, that shit would get auto-filtered straight into the spam folder.

[–] Alwaysnownevernotme@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Report every post they send you. It will be their problem eventually.

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[–] AverageEarthling@feddit.online 12 points 1 week ago (5 children)

I always make up an email address. fakename@fakedomain.com. If they require a confirmation, I use a forwarder and forward to a yahoo account that I never use and has all fake profile info. Fake name, fake birthday, fake profile pic. I log in maybe twice per year and delete everything.

[–] moendopi@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago

Ahhhhh, good idea. A burner trash email.with fake details. I don't know why I didn't think of that.

[–] Krzd@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago

10 Minute E-Mails are your friend.

[–] itsgroundhogdayagain@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Make your first or last name the name of the website so you know who sold your email address to spammers.

I have a catch-all email domain, and this is exactly what I do. Walmart gets “walmart@example.com”, Target gets “target@example.com”, etc… All of them go to the same inbox, so I always know which email address they think I have. If I start getting spam addressed to walmart@example.com, I know Walmart sold my info. I can just filter anything addressed to that account straight into my spam folder.

[–] thedirtyknapkin@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

sadly more and more sites are rejecting many of the easily accessible mail forwarders and temp email services.

[–] Echo5@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] bitjunkie@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

Forwards to adscheaper.com

[–] doingthestuff@lemy.lol 10 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] Alberat@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago (3 children)

what's wrong with the times?

[–] jali67@lemmy.zip 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Billionaire owner caters to bullshit ideals in their opinion pieces all the time. Lots of great journalists work for them and The Athletic though.

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They're dogshit lol

[–] dansemacabreingalone@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 week ago (3 children)

They were founded as a reaction to the other big paper's european correspondent being sorta communist.

Theyve only gotten more reactionary since.

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Lmao they never consider that you have like. 5 emails.

What a fucking concept.

[–] caligine@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 1 week ago
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