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I like to try websites out before tying my identity to them. How do you do it? Simplelogin? I honestly won't manually make a new gmail for every new website I try and I to want the option to see what emails I get.

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[–] random65837@lemmy.world -1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

And when those addresses wind up on mailing/spam lists and they're coming from multiple places, you're screwed. That's why email forwarders became a thing, catch-alls aren't new, but you lack the control most want with them.

Plus, Proton does support plus/+ addressing, which does the same thing as a catch-all. You know the email addy it came from.

[–] capital@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

If I were a professional spammer, the first thing I’d do to clean the address list I have is to strip out plus addresses. It’s a simple regex.

On how to filter, I can send any address straight to the trash apparently just like simplelogin. I’ll know who sold or leaked my info because it’s in Bitwarden and I can just search my vault to see who I handed that particular address to.