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You can give unique throwaway addresses to people you don't fully trust (e.g. newsletters, recruiters) and apply the rules you want. It would be very naive to t

You can give unique throwaway addresses to people you don't fully trust (e.g. newsletters, recruiters) and apply the rules you want. It would be very naive to think that Big Tech won't abuse their market positions.

Shared404 4y ago
I do this, and it's very nice to tell who lost/sold my email. Also it's funny to see people react to their business name being in my email :P .
- yonrg 4y ago
  Yes, I got once a discount because the phone agent thought I am a colleague :)
  - dariusm5 4y ago
    I've had a few occasions that employees thought I worked for the company based on my email. On one occasion, I was checking into a Hilton hotel and the employee thought I worked for corporate due to my email, hilton@domain.tld. In the past, I used to explain to them how I control the domain and I have separate emails for every company due to spam reasons. However, this usually caused confusion so now I sometimes go along with what they think or hint that I'm some 'mystery shopper'.
- godmode2019 4y ago
  I had a website break, because they were filtering emails that contain their domain name for some reason. And I had no way to apply for the government licence thing I needed, and the people on the phone suggested I use the website.
  - hamburglar 4y ago
    I’m very rigorous about including the full domain name in my email address (consistency helps me remember what I used. I made the mistake early on of using myname-paypal@mydomain.com instead of myname-paypal.com@… and it drove me insane until I changed it), but every once in a while there’s a site (or occasionally a customer service rep) that refuses to accept that, in which case I just make up some unique three letter suffix to use instead and make a note of it in my password manager. My email for my kids’ school whose name starts with a W, for example, just ended up being mynane-w@mydomain.com. Luckily these exceptions are rarely necessary and I’ve only had to do half a dozen of them in about 17 years of doing this.
deepdriver 4y ago
Fastmail offers this feature as well, for less technical users.
gog 4y ago
My Gmail is my throwaway address, if something is important I use my real address (selfhosted).

Shared404 4y ago

I do this, and it's very nice to tell who lost/sold my email. Also it's funny to see people react to their business name being in my email :P .

yonrg 4y ago
Yes, I got once a discount because the phone agent thought I am a colleague :)
- dariusm5 4y ago
  I've had a few occasions that employees thought I worked for the company based on my email. On one occasion, I was checking into a Hilton hotel and the employee thought I worked for corporate due to my email, hilton@domain.tld. In the past, I used to explain to them how I control the domain and I have separate emails for every company due to spam reasons. However, this usually caused confusion so now I sometimes go along with what they think or hint that I'm some 'mystery shopper'.
godmode2019 4y ago
I had a website break, because they were filtering emails that contain their domain name for some reason. And I had no way to apply for the government licence thing I needed, and the people on the phone suggested I use the website.
- hamburglar 4y ago
  I’m very rigorous about including the full domain name in my email address (consistency helps me remember what I used. I made the mistake early on of using myname-paypal@mydomain.com instead of myname-paypal.com@… and it drove me insane until I changed it), but every once in a while there’s a site (or occasionally a customer service rep) that refuses to accept that, in which case I just make up some unique three letter suffix to use instead and make a note of it in my password manager. My email for my kids’ school whose name starts with a W, for example, just ended up being mynane-w@mydomain.com. Luckily these exceptions are rarely necessary and I’ve only had to do half a dozen of them in about 17 years of doing this.

deepdriver 4y ago

Fastmail offers this feature as well, for less technical users.

gog 4y ago

My Gmail is my throwaway address, if something is important I use my real address (selfhosted).