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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Ok any tips on how to manage email addresses to minimize their exposure and spam?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Yeah, use an email relay service like Firefox Relay, SimpleLogin, the one from Proton if you have an account with them (that's SimpleLogin behind)…

You can create email aliases, that will relay the email to your main address. Create a new alias for each website so they can't use your email address to correlate your identity and you can close it anytime, you can even configure an alias to only allow a set amount of messages and auto-close afterward.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

If you use iCloud mail (I don't), they have an email relay service, too. They call them "email aliases."

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

Addy.io gives you email aliases as not to expose your actual email address. Everything gets funnelled into a single inbox of your choosing still. And the great thing is that if you use a unique email alias for all services, you know instantly who leaked your email address if you start getting spam. :D

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Don't give out your email to spammers. Most legitimate businesses might send quite a lot of mail, but it's very often easy to unsubscribe so do that.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Don't give out your email to spammers

No shit Sherlock. The real cause of spammers getting your email is through data breaches. The only thing you can do about that is not use your personal mail address for every single website you create an account for.