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[-] Swarfega@lemm.ee 7 points 11 months ago

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.

[-] DreadPirateShawn@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 11 months ago

Often a low-effort alternative to this is to use the "plus addressing" trick: username+whateveryoulike@domain.tld

The example above routes to username@domain.tld, 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.

[-] Swarfega@lemm.ee 4 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

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/

this post was submitted on 09 Dec 2023
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