I have a catch-all address with a personal domain. Infinite aliases for free.
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WhatAmLemmy@lemmy.world 11 months agoPeople acting like a phone number isn’t 100x more personally identifiable than email are delusional. I have like 700 unique emails atm, and can create a new one within seconds. I only have a few numbers.
Engywuck@lemm.ee 11 months ago
b000urns@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Hmm🤔 I use Migadu and could probably set this up – is this actually a good idea?
lemmyvore@feddit.nl 11 months ago
A catch-all is not a good idea. But Migadu lets you do something called pattern rewrites which are aliases that can contain wildcards. So you can set up a pattern like
shop-*@yourdomain.tldand use addresses likeshop-amazon@,shop-etsy@etc.It doesn’t have to be “shop” you can use anything you want and make up the pattern in any way you want (“ama.shop.zon@” or whatever you can think of).
It’s better than plus addresses (“realaddress+amazon@”) because it doesn’t have to include your real address, and you can make a pattern that nobody can guess, but still retain the ability to use one address per site so you know who’s spamming you, and you can make them up on the fly.
In fact I no longer use my “real” address for anything except logging into IMAP and SMTP, I use aliases or patterns for everything else.
These addresses do have one downside similar to catch-all: if one of them starts getting spam you have to make an explicit deny rule for it. Some people contend that this is a messy approach and they’d rather make regular (non-wildcard) aliases and deny everything else. The downside with that however is that you can no longer make up addresses on the fly, you have to go to the Migadu admin to create the alias every time.
b000urns@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Hmm 🤔 interesting, I appreciate the qualified suggestions
Engywuck@lemm.ee 11 months ago
“It work for me” ©
db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 months ago
Don’t you also get infinite spam?
lemmyvore@feddit.nl 11 months ago
Spammers don’t bother scanning domains as much nowadays. They used to watch domain registration then spam addresses like admin@, contact@, office@ etc. but nowadays most people aren’t dumb enough to use those anymore. So spammers would rather buy a list of millions of addresses that someone else obtained by breaking into sites like Yahoo or LinkedIn, which are much more likely to get a hit.
Engywuck@lemm.ee 11 months ago
Actually (and surprisingly), I don’t. Maybe it’s due to WHOIS privacy.
smeg@feddit.uk 11 months ago
If they’re all attached to the same personal domain then that’s just as personally identifiable though
Engywuck@lemm.ee 11 months ago
Not if whois privacy is in place.
smeg@feddit.uk 11 months ago
True, signing up for several accounts using the same personal domain will create a link between those accounts though (whereas if they’re all
@simplelogin.comor similar then you’re hiding asking the crowd)
Annoyed_Crabby@monyet.cc 11 months ago
In my country we’re required to have our own identification tied to the number and we can only legally have a handful of number under a person name. Email is nothing lol.
Alivrah@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I have a very, very old SIM card. It’s from the 3G era, which means I miss out on my phone’s 5G capabilities. However, when I went to buy a new card I found out you’re required to take a selfie and send to the telecom company alongside your ID and email, which is creepy enough to keep me using my 3G SIM…
Annoyed_Crabby@monyet.cc 11 months ago
Maybe you can request a new card but under the same number? In my country we can request for a new card that way, though we didn’t need to take a selfie when buying a new number, just have to register your name and ID(quite old fashion but the rule is made in pre-smartphone era to combat scammer)
Alivrah@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I’d have to go to a telecom store to do that in person, which I don’t really have an issue with, except that it may take a whole afternoon on a queue waiting for my turn.
Anyway, I rarely use mobile internet and when I do, it’s mostly for text messages, so I don’t feel a pressing need to upgrade.
neutron@thelemmy.club 11 months ago
I lived in a country doing that, and couldn’t understand the people making social media profiles with their (actually traceable to a real life identity) phone numbers public. Don’t you love receiving spam calls?
Annoyed_Crabby@monyet.cc 11 months ago
Funny thing is, there’s a time where the hot topic is basically facebook eavesdropping conversation then put on ads with item relevant to the conversation. Everyone talk about it being creepy, but everyone keep using it without any change. I think they just don’t care ¯\_(ツ)_/¯