this post was submitted on 10 Apr 2024
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This is a community for designs specifically crafted to make the experience worse for the user. This can be due to greed, apathy, laziness or just downright scumbaggery.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 9 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

This is why I heavily use email aliases, as well as a catch-all. I use a different alias for each service or website I need to sign up for.

That way if they sell or leak my info, I know exactly who did. And if they pull some bullshit like this, I add the alias to a sieve filter, and they can get bent.

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago

I've got a couple hundred aliases now and I've only caught a couple, and both were basically like "xyz gave us your email address" like they didn't even care if you knew.