Comment on Started to move off Google (not strictly self-hosted)

SirMaple_@lemmy.sirmaple.ca ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• originalucifer@moist.catsweat.com ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  i also use proton, but i just use a custom address with every unique vendor/account. i know almost immediately who sold my address. it also prevents hacked systems from matching addresses in other systems.

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  • erev@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    For anyone who wants to do this easily: afaik (ymmv) most mail systems will accept aliases to your account if you put a + after your email username. for example, if you’re foo@example.com, then foo+bar@example.com would still route to your inbox but you’d be able to see that it was sent to a different address than your own. i do this for any email i put into a website I don’t trust (which is most) and if you use the company name it’s a really easy way to see who sold your data

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    • Moonrise2473@feddit.it ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      For a spammer it literally takes less than ten seconds to clean a list of one million addresses from “plus addresses”. Only amateur spammers use raw lists without any sanitization

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    • relaymoth@sh.itjust.works ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Just be aware that it’s not guaranteed - I’ve had services remove everything after the ‘+something’ on my email address. Some will also not see that as a valid email address, depending on how they do their input validation.

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  • SirMaple_@lemmy.sirmaple.ca ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Yes that’s what SimpleLogin does and its part of the Proton umbrella. You can use your own custom domain or a SimpleLogin domain to create email addresses. It also enables you to send from the custom addresses so the end user never learns your true email address. SimpleLogin also has mobile apps so you can create addresses very easily.

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    • originalucifer@moist.catsweat.com ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      yeah, its like what i do with more steps. i guess it makes reply addressing slightly easier.

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• AlecSadler@sh.itjust.works ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Serious question, why SimpleLogin vs Proton aliases?

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  • originalucifer@moist.catsweat.com ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    if youre running a full domain, you dont even need to manually create alias' unless you need to reply/send as.

    i've found i rarely need to do that, so you can literally just use an email address literally off the top of your head, have it all forwarded to a catch all and youre done. none of this extra service stuff. again, unless you require 'send as/aliasing'.

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    • AlecSadler@sh.itjust.works ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Yeah, my bad, that’s what I do - so I just wasn’t sure what the benefit of SimpleLogin was…fully open to admit maybe I’m missing something though.

      I basically create an email alias for every service I use and when leaks happen I know exactly who the offender is - which is nice…I guess.

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• helenslunch@feddit.nl ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I’ve caught a couple but they weren’t subtle about it at all. I got an email from Norton antivirus that referenced the seller directly. No shame.

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