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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago (2 children)

What about plus addressing which is supported by most major mail services for free? You can just use [email protected] for example.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 23 hours ago

I didn't know that actually. They can still deduce your actual email address from that, but for the identification of the culprit that would work as well.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

For users of Gmail, I can confirm this works and you can even set it up so that address+nameofshop goes to a folder called "nameofshop."

You can also apparently add a dot anywhere before @gmail.com and still receive the email. I haven't tried this one, but the last time I mentioned this someone said it was part of the email standard, so presumably it works.

I don't know of tricks specifically of this vein for proton mail, but I do know you can setup a catch-all address so, for example, something addressed to [email protected] goes instead to [email protected].

I've not tried SimpleLogin, but apparently it offers similar functionality.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago