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Nick HeerI know, I know, but it’s still funny to me.
Donncha Ó Caoimh@nickheer haha, love it. I give a different address to each of them. Useful to track who spams me or who gets hacked.
Jochen Diekenbrock
Lippe@diekenbrock @donncha @nickheer Same here! Especially when talking to someone not that tech-savvy who then thinks I work at the same company...
Niclas@diekenbrock @donncha @nickheer SimpleLogin will always generate mails with the company name in it :). Though I haven't had the fun of actually telling some customer support about it. The day will come.
@n1cl4s @donncha @nickheer It is really fun, especially if they think that because of the email, you're an employee of that company as well.
Almost as fun as reading out a 32 character random passwort to customer support to identify a login problem. They were able to see the password in clear text (yes I know, long time ago...) and when they saw the password I just heard "Oh Gott".
It turned out, their registration accepted 32 character, but the login truncated after 30 characters. But that's a different story.
@diekenbrock @donncha @nickheer I have recently read something about some site truncating passwords longer than 16 digits. I'm not sure, though, what site that was.
🇪🇺 Paul Schoonhoven 🍋🍉@diekenbrock @donncha the funny thing is that I don't get spammed on those 'special emailadresses'. Only soms general addresses I use for many years now. (and don't use much anymore)
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Mayank Gupta@diekenbrock @donncha @nickheer I do the same most of the time. I need to do it more often though.
Duck.com email addresses or using wildcard emails is a wonderful solution.
Half Cocked Law@nickheer Bypass Paywalls laughs in the layover's general direction.
Jon Henshaw@nickheer Masked emails are your friend
https://www.coywolf.news/productivity/fastmail-masked-email-privacy-service-1password-integration/
Dreams
Damian Wajer@jon There is also #DuckDuckGo Email (forwarding service), which generates a random #email address for each form and integrates nicely with the browser: duckduckgo.com/email/
#Privacy
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@jon I like having things on my domain too, but in this case, I think it may be less private. You expose your domain, so it can be assigned to you (depending on the domain name, who else is using it, WHOIS data, etc.). Anyway, ownership (more control) is always a plus.
@damian since the primary goal is to thwart automated tracking and fingerprinting, I don’t think the domain matters for my privacy. If advertisers are going out of their way to discover my hidden WHOIS data, and they miraculously find a way to determine I’m the only person using the domain, and it’s all for the purpose of serving me personalized ads, then that would indeed be scary from an overreaching privacy perspective.
@damian I also wanted to say that I agree with you regarding other situations. For example, you could lose privacy in less automated circumstances. For example, if I sign up for a newsletter or submit a form, and if the person on the other end is curious enough, they could determine who owns the domain, as you said. So there are privacy implications there, in which case, DDG, Hide My Email, or using Fastmail's generic domain might be better to use.
@jon That's exactly what I meant. It's just a matter of what goals you want to achieve and for what purpose :)
Darren du Nord@damian I really like it. I've started to deploy @duckduckgo forwarding more widely. Works well so far, but I'm concerned that the domain might get blocked at some point, going the way of mailinator.
@darren I guess this is a possibility, but DuckDuckGo Email works a little differently. It provides the static address user@domain, allows you to reply from your DuckDuckGo address, and a random private Duck address is only one of its features. It can be used almost like an actual email account, so let's hope it won't happen.
Hollie
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Amelyuel@nickheer oh the irony~ 🎶
sw0rdfish
Stirling C / @stirlo.be@nickheer haa. I have a public one which is on business cards, and profiles — an even more “I’m suspicious of your motives” one and then a few which are completely unknown to nearly everyone
I Don’t give out my hard-to-change email address at all unless I **trust** you a Lot;
Gmail is like a junk mail catcher too.
🌲🧿 "Max"t💽d🏵️n 🔎🍄@nickheer Trust me, I do.
Stuart Longland (VK4MSL)@nickheer NYT says, "We're hungry… givvus your bread crumbs!"
C Silva
A Closed Account@nickheer spot on ! LOL
@nickheer this is my favorite thing ever
Dave Green@nickheer Irony can be pretty darn ironic sometimes.
Jason Petersen (he)@nickheer why I know I know? The Times will absolutely sell your information to any bidder
Riccardo Mori@nickheer The sweet taste of irony in the evening.
KLB@nickheer I need that article. Sooooo frustrating
Elizabeth Tai | 戴秀铃 🇲🇾@nickheer Irony in its finest form
Anya 👁️@nickheer en fin, la hipotenusa.
Paul@nickheer I’ve been using firefox relay for a while now and having unique emails for (mostly) every site I sign up to that all forward to my one gmail is incredible. Other masked email services like what apple and fastmail provide are all viable options.
Ray
Roadskater, Ph.D.@nickheer I'm now pondering whether having a throwaway email domain and multiple e-mail addresses there has accomplished... anything? Or if the AIs have already figured out my devious plan.
Kristoffer Johansson@nickheer this is perfect! 🙃
@nickheer Although many great providers for anonymized emails have been named, I just want to add my favorite for "completeness": https://simplelogin.io/
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Patrick Nielsen Hayden
Anagram Man@nickheer This is rich - this, coming from @NewYorkTimes The New York Times, who when I sent a request to fully delete my account and remove my personal info I got a letter back from their "Data Governance board " basically saying since I don't live in a state which affords me any data privacy rights they simply are refusing to comply -- since (presumably) they are not legally obligated.
AL@nickheer I file this one under, "unclear on the subject"