I also use a custom domain. Basically, as long as you accept that the domain might be linked to your IRL name, it’s more of a privacy issue in that regard. The custom domain means you don’t ever have to stick with one company forever, also. My email address is portable to any hosting service.
Spammers and scammers work in databases of hundreds of thousands of records they buy. Anything that doesn’t immediately return a hit is chaff to be deleted. There’s no incentive to root through thousands of credential combos and see if your human brain can see a pattern to tweak, short of targeted attacks about you as a person. If the custom domain doesn’t stand out as a business with website worth sending ransomware, what’s the reason to be a target? No one will waste time on a custom domain just in hopes of getting someone’s 27 addresses just to send important dick pill meds spam.
I get zero spam after a year or so with a custom domain. My neutered gmail still gets flooded with spam.
I also use a custom domain. Basically, as long as you accept that the domain might be linked to your IRL name, it’s more of a privacy issue in that regard. The custom domain means you don’t ever have to stick with one company forever, also. My email address is portable to any hosting service.
Spammers and scammers work in databases of hundreds of thousands of records they buy. Anything that doesn’t immediately return a hit is chaff to be deleted. There’s no incentive to root through thousands of credential combos and see if your human brain can see a pattern to tweak, short of targeted attacks about you as a person. If the custom domain doesn’t stand out as a business with website worth sending ransomware, what’s the reason to be a target? No one will waste time on a custom domain just in hopes of getting someone’s 27 addresses just to send important dick pill meds spam.
I get zero spam after a year or so with a custom domain. My neutered gmail still gets flooded with spam.