fuck the times
Ugh, yeah. I got gifted an article and now they won’t leave me alone. I can’t get off their email list without giving them my email that they already have so I can make an account with them I don’t want so I can get off the email list I’m already on. FFS man
Click ‘Report Spam’
Yeah, that shit would get auto-filtered straight into the spam folder.
I always make up an email address. [email protected]. If they require a confirmation, I use a forwarder and forward to a yahoo account that I never use and has all fake profile info. Fake name, fake birthday, fake profile pic. I log in maybe twice per year and delete everything.
Make your first or last name the name of the website so you know who sold your email address to spammers.
I have a catch-all email domain, and this is exactly what I do. Walmart gets “[email protected]”, Target gets “[email protected]”, etc… All of them go to the same inbox, so I always know which email address they think I have. If I start getting spam addressed to [email protected], I know Walmart sold my info. I can just filter anything addressed to that account straight into my spam folder.
sadly more and more sites are rejecting many of the easily accessible mail forwarders and temp email services.
10 Minute E-Mails are your friend.
Forwards to adscheaper.com
Ahhhhh, good idea. A burner trash email.with fake details. I don’t know why I didn’t think of that.
I don’t have ONE email address, I have hundreds. I use a unique email address and password for everything i sign up for. I use a custom domain, and use [email protected], or [email protected] etc. so even if one of those sites are breached, all they get is one email and one unique password.
I used to live like a savage with everything tied to one email, and had a few regular spam shields. Damned fool small smooth brain idiot way of living!
I don’t know why I didn’t do a custom domain 10 years ago. The level of security buffering it offers is worth every penny alone. Someone gets aggressively spammy? Fine, I’ll delete the fucking email address, enjoy the bounceback, dicks. Every breach reinforces the idea that this is a good call, giving data leaks worthless garbage. It genuinely gives me a feeling of freedom.
I use
thepresident@whitehouse.gov. The only website I’ve found that won’t take this address is quiznos wifihuh, i’d try potus at whatever dot shit i’m taking more energy avoiding typing that but spite is one hell of a motivator. might work.
or a.scalia at scotus dot gov i’m pretty sure that one is real
It’s in my contacts so Gboard brings it up as a suggestion after writing
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Also, you easily know the source of the breach.
I have seen this approach from other people as well. How do you feel about them knowing your custom domain? Then it’s easier to search for other mail addresses of that domain as well?
I use the aliases from Proton which make me feel a bit more ‘safe’. Downside is that I’m locked into Proton… :)
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.
That has happened to me… twice. Once they sent spam to abuse@<domain> and once to postmaster@<domain>. Both of those are “well-known” addresses that received one spam mail each.
Having your own domain with a catch-all address is rare enough that spammers don’t seem to try to target it.
Meanwhile I set up straight-to-spam rules for a handful of companies that leaked my email address. Very useful.
That’s possibly true, but I still use a long password, so even if they do, I use 150 char characters where possible. So they’re not getting in. Password managers ftw
Well try aren’t brute forcing 150 chars, that’s for sure, but don’t mistake that as the same as “they’re not getting in”.
seriously, once they know it’s 150 characters of hunter2 they’re in
Doesn’t everyone have a shit email they use for porn and other dodgy stuff?
Yeah, a dead one that literally doesn’t function anymore. If they “require confirmation” then I no longer need to read whatever is being gatekept.
Also, 90% of the time, [email protected] works.
10 Minute E-Mails are the best, you can confirm it exists, and they don’t get any (usable) data
I’m partial to [email protected]. Trump can have My porn ads.
It’s the 867-5309 of emails.
Also, 90% of the time, [email protected] works.
I’m always amused how often [email protected] works
I feel bad for whoever owns you.com
Seems like it would be an innocent new agey spiritual affirmation kind of site. Actually, it’s probably some bullshit, so never mind.
if i owned Fuck at you dot com i’d keep it set up for spam just for that reason.
but i have my own private spam email addresses. like three of them, for different identities.
I prefer [email protected]
Like the Times.
Yeah, it’s my gmail address.
I have two!
Sort of. I have a “catch-all” address (that’s just the most legit looking result to a search for the phrase, I won’t vouch for whether it’s a good site). Basically [email protected] goes to [email protected]. It’s a bit awkward if you need to respond, but otherwise, it’s good for signing up to sites and it makes it easy to filter out ones that spam you and don’t provide a good unsubscribe link.
My old hotmail gets all that stuff. Awhile back they added some stuff to automatically keep it clean-ish, mainly the sweep feature. Plus I have addy.io that forwards a bunch of stuff to it.
