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Migrated to Fastmail a few weeks ago. It's going swimmingly. The private addresses feature is brilliant. I can tell what service sold my address or leaked it, o
by vmoore 4y ago
Migrated to Fastmail a few weeks ago. It's going swimmingly. The private addresses feature is brilliant. I can tell what service sold my address or leaked it, or otherwise gave it out somewhere against my consent. If Gmail allowed for private aliases it would thwart spam, but they won't implement it because they're anti-privacy.
- pexabit 4y agoYou can always do "username+<servicename>@gmail.com" for this purpose. Doesn't help with privacy but tells you which service is leaking addresses.
- dmillar 4y agofwiw, companies that are selling/giving away your email address are wise to this 'hack.'
- dylan604 4y ago>You can always do "username+<servicename>@gmail.com" Um, that's a solid maybe. Some services drop everything after the +. Some complain about it being not valid. Use of the word always will pretty much always get you into a strange place
- hollowturtle 4y agoJumped on the fastmail train almost a year ago and can't complain, it's the only inbox I actually enjoy having. But I haven't been able to fully abandon gmail yet, according to my password manager I still have ~70 accounts registered with gmail over 190 total, it's been a pain so far...
- anderspitman 4y agoJust throwing my 2c in. This sounds cool in theory, but after a couple years of doing the same thing, I've identified exactly one case of an org giving my email address to a third party, and it was a local car dealership giving it to siriusXM because a car I bought had hardware for the service. That said, I absolutely love Fastmail and having my own domain for emails.