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Plot twitst: I dont have any webcams. Lol.
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Invest some time in transferring to a new email address but also an email alias service. That way you never give out your new email address to anyone and give each site/service you use its own alias.
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.
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/