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 8 months agoi 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.
SirMaple_@lemmy.sirmaple.ca 8 months ago
originalucifer@moist.catsweat.com 8 months ago
yeah, its like what i do with more steps. i guess it makes reply addressing slightly easier.
erev@lemmy.world 8 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
Moonrise2473@feddit.it 8 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
relaymoth@sh.itjust.works 8 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.