• Pringles@lemm.ee
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    4 hours ago

    For e-mails, you can just get firefox relay with your own subdomain and generate infinite e-mail masks for 1$ a month. I usually take “nameofshop@mysubdomain.mozmail.com” for example. It’s pretty great because you just make the masks on the fly.

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      5 minutes ago

      I’ve been doing this for several years now (not specifically that service, since I have my own domains). It’s really nice knowing exactly who sold your email to the spam bots, because it’s right in the address. Super easy to block once that happens.

    • Blackmist@feddit.uk
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      3 hours ago

      The email mask is free without a subdomain. I use it for the odd random signups where the only thing I’m really interested in is not having another nobhead add me to their spam lists.

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        1 hour ago

        That’s how I used it initially as well, but chose to get a subdomain to identify shops and services that had data breaches/leaks, pass on the email to other shops and services, etc.

        And then I can just block that mask.

    • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works
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      4 hours ago

      Yup.

      If you use the same email everywhere, they can try brute-forcing the password by using the email instead of your username. Give them less to go on. $1/month is absolutely worth it to prevent an important account from getting hacked.