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[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Often a low-effort alternative to this is to use the "plus addressing" trick: [email protected]

The example above routes to [email protected], but you can track and filter on the extra tag portion.

Granted, it doesn't have universal support, but it's somewhat widespread at least.

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

This works but has a number of downsides.

Eg hackers just have to remove the +portion to have your email address. You also can't send emails out via any of those addresses.

https://simplelogin.io/blog/email-alias-vs-plus-sign/