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This is why I have the username part of my email address tailored to each site/service I register with. So I have a hackernews@example.org, amazon@example.org,
by jdavis703 10y ago
This is why I have the username part of my email address tailored to each site/service I register with. So I have a hackernews@example.org, amazon@example.org, etc. Human beings get my real email though (because it would be weird if I told John Smith to email me at johnsmith@example.org). If people start abusing this (politicians do this a lot), I can just block say timkaine@example.org, and never hear from them or people they've sold and traded my email to.
- sneak 10y agoThis breaks "i forgot my password" links years later when you forget what tag you used to sign up at some rarely-used service. I stopped doing it.
- Nadya 10y agoOnly if the site is renamed or asks for your username instead of your email to reset a password. `their.domain.com@example.org` means as long as they use `their.domain.com` you'll know which email to check: `their.domain.com@example.org`
- robin_reala 10y agoLuckily your password manager has remembered which email address you used with which domain.
- __david__ 10y agoFWIW, I've been doing this for about 15 years and I've never had that trouble. I tend to keep the same system for customizing emails so I can guess my username in one or two tries. But using a password manager has completely eliminated even that.
- delecti 10y ago> If people start abusing this (politicians do this a lot) I wish I had set something like this up before falling in for the Ron Paul hype in 2008 (sue me, I was 19). Got untold heaps of junk from those jerks for years before I got it under control.
- nashashmi 10y agoThe big problem is when you give out your email address to a human who stores it in his contacts, and some malware app gets a hold of his contacts and sells/distributes it.