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[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 days ago (1 children)

I like to use the scientific names of common things, like vegetables.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 days ago
[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

Simplelogin. I have like 500 email addresses, all single use

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

It's my cringe weeb account from when I was, like 10. I'm talking "NekoOniBakaChan_[email protected]" levels of cringe.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

10 minute mail for anything I don't want to sign in to ever again.

Otherwise I have a gmail I made for the purpose, the address is some generic words and numbers that don't look like a complete spam (in case I need to send an email and hope to get a response).

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

It was the coolest name from the random generator

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

My what now?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

If I need a burner email I can generate a temporary one on Tempmail

Other than that - my account for "less important stuff" is just one of my old ones. ;)

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

It's my final yahoo email. Used it as a kid so obviously it's already full of spam, now I just use it for even more spam

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Do you understand that if someone would find this email, then they would be able to get an incredible amount of information about you from data breaches?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago

From me as a kid with my totally accurate information I put in, sure.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago

I use my main account for that. I just unsubscribe from all news letters immediately so I don't generally get any spam.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

Proton. They have a mail aliases feature where you can create temporary email addresses which forward to your account. Then, if you start getting junk you didn't ask for, or have trouble unsubscribing, you just delete the alias.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

Same. The sweep feature is great for things from online shops I haven’t unsubscribed from yet.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

I often use proton for junk mails as it does not require phone or something and a lot of services accept it compared to the normal trash mail services.

Another thing i do is searching for the sender of annoying mails, mark like 10 of them and mark them as spam, then the next ones get dumped too

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

Duck duck go has generative email addresses. Seem to work pretty well.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

It's one word off from an Alice in Wonderland quote

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

My email comes with masked email options, so if I need an email I just hit create and it generates one that forwards to/from my account. Just as easy to block or delete them.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Sounds good. Which provider do you use?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I don't know who OP uses, but I know that Fastmail has that feature and its pretty handy.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

That was what I'm using. With Protonmail they bought SimpleLogin and it was more or less the same.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

That's really poor OPSEC. I just visited your github and found the email, because you have no clue how git works. haveibeenpwned.com shows that this email is in 23 data breaches. Now, I can download the ParkMobile data breach and find your license plate and possibly phone number. If I would have the Slickwraps or Straffic breach then I would also be able to get your address. I can also download Collection #1 and get one or few of your old passwords. Your OPSEC can be broken in few minutes by a random internet stranger.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

Just made up a fake name

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

Anything that needs an unconfirmed signup, I've always used Don B. Sonozi - [email protected]

I figure that one day a spammer will learn regret.

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