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I do this with fastmail. Besides privacy, another benefit is you can set up routing rules. e.g. for subscribing to newsletters, use <whatever>.sub@example.com.
by jacobobryant 6y ago
I do this with fastmail. Besides privacy, another benefit is you can set up routing rules. e.g. for subscribing to newsletters, use <whatever>.sub@example.com. Anything that goes to an address that ends in .sub@example.com gets marked as read and is delivered to a folder for newsletters. I do a similar thing when signing up for services. It's kinda like what Gmail does with ML, but you have more control.
- m-p-3 6y agoI do this with gmail, when I register an account I'll use firstname.lastname+domain.name@gmail.com. Whoever with more than two brain cells would notice and strip the suffix out, but they usually don't bother with a database leak.
- jacobobryant 6y agoDo you know if they actually don't bother? The article author makes it sound like tracking companies do in fact normalize gmail addresses. I suppose my custom domain addresses wouldn't be too hard to normalize either if you have a way to take a domain and get a probability for how likely it is to be a personal domain. It provides a little extra friction at least, I guess.