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I do use additional addresses the reasons are: 1) if company X becomes "spammy" (as in starts sending me too many advertisements, even though they are technica
by pwg 5y ago
I do use additional addresses the reasons are:
1) if company X becomes "spammy" (as in starts sending me too many advertisements, even though they are technically not "spam"), and their "unsubscribe" link does not work, I can stop the spam by removing their email address.
2) if the address for company X suddenly starts getting wild amounts of spam, unrelated to company X, I know that it is likely company X has suffered a breach and their email list is "out there". And again I can remove the alias to stop the flood.
Almost all of them all drop into the same single inbox, so I don't have to also check N inboxes for N aliases.
- bradwood 5y agoI do this. But rather than set up an alias, I just accept *@mydomain and then filter on the bit before the @. Whenever I put my email address into any online service it is of the form domain.of.service.com@mydomain. Works a treat As an aside, 1Password and Fastmail seem to have tie-up call masked mail that aims to do something similar