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maybe i can write a whatthreewords style "email identity mapper" so you put in "walmart.com" and it spits out "busybee223@example.com" and "autozone rewards" yi
by genewitch 4mo ago
maybe i can write a whatthreewords style "email identity mapper" so you put in "walmart.com" and it spits out "busybee223@example.com" and "autozone rewards" yields "Horserider184@example.com"
then if you start getting spammed, you use the w3w style thing to reverse it and see what site/entity sold your email...
then all of the "this doesn't/won't work because they'll just spam the entire domain" arguments go away, the "no, your email address" style comments go away...
- greengreengrass 4mo agoGood thought experiment! Makes it hard to remember the correct address for each site, but meh, that's the job of my password manager anyway.
- genewitch 4mo agoone wouldn't have to remember. if the address you gave out using the w3w-style encoder starts getting spammed, you can reverse it with the w3w-style decoder. you'd need an app or a mnemonic device of some sort if you wanted to give an email out in public as opposed to sitting at a computer. but ideally on the computer when you notice spam you just reverse the email address back to who you gave it to; "target.com", "kroger.com"
- sebastiennight 4mo agoSimpleLogin / ProtonMail and other providers do this for you automatically and call it an "alias". You can choose to have the company name visible in the first part of the email address or not. (with the last part being your own domain of course)