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Is it better to use a non-FOSS email and phone number forwarder or to use one of each for everything? (www.cloaked.app)

submitted 1 year ago by chewgrabonion@lemmy.world to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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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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[–] shasta@lemm.ee 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

With gmail if you have an account like example@gmail.com you can then sign up for a website such as netflix with email example+netflix@gmail.com and gmail will forward it to example@gmail.com, but you'll still see the full address on the To line so you'll know where the mail came from. Anything after the + can be whatever you want. This lets you sign up with a different email address for every site you visit without having to create new addresses with gmail. You can also make a filter to hide spam if one of the addresses is compromised.

[–] hh93@lemm.ee 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

only works with very simple scripts though - I'd assume that checking for a '+' in front of the '@' and removing everything inbetween is very simple if your goal is to spam everyone from a data-leak

[–] shasta@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

That's very true. I cannot attest to the knowledge and skills of potential spammers. However, more common than data leaks are data selling, and I doubt any company would bother to manipulate the email addresses they buy from others.