Disposable email or emails for signing up with random websites

ze_cook said:
If you have a custom domain email with google workspace, you can configure a catch-all policy to route any email to whatever@your-domain.tld, no limits. Link for google workspace https://support.google.com/a/answer/12943537?hl=en-na
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If someone wants to take this approach then a more seamles way is to get a free account on Zoho. It gives 5 email accounts on free tier and a high number of aliases. I use of the mailboxes for random signups with almost 14 aliases and enter that anytime I have to enter my email and maintain conversations.
 
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Heisen said:
I know with gmail we can make multiple emails by just adding +sometext at the end. But this still exposes our primary email
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Why not just sign up for another different gmail account like "myrandomid@gmail.com" and then use the "+randomtext" thingy so you dont reveal your real email ID?

this assumes all websites you want to sign up at allow this +randomtext format, im sure there are smart people who will disallow this format...
 
badwhitevision said:
So you're telling me badwhitevision@gmail.com, bad.whitevision@gmail.com & badwhite.vision@gmail.com all go to the same address?
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Also at @googlemail.com. This is an alias for gmail.com because 'gmail' was already trademarked in the uk so they had to use another domain there, but it's always worked globally.

Heisen said:
I found that outlook provides you 10 aliases free + one primary email,
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I remember when I was younger, all of my outlook aliases were rot[insert-prime-number] versions of the original, thinking I was being clever haha.

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I've had an extensive email strategy for a few decades now, my first exposure to the internet was the hotmail inbox in 1998, I'd spend an hour every day just poking around at an internet cafe. My academia account is firstname.lastname and my backup/recovery accounts are lastname.firstname and my (indian) government accounts are on a different provider so I don't mix my financial data with my (dead) medical career.

The websites where I spend in USD have a different account compared to where I spend in INR which also different where I can spend in crypto or giftcards (app stores mostly). The username here is for forums where I buy/sell, I have another username for forums where my address is not shared with members. Social media also has a different username. I was an early adopter of crypto so this made sense for privacy reasons.

All google services have different accounts, in the format of initials.service so it's like abc.maps@gmail for maps and abc.apps@gmail for play store, and others for gpay and youtube. I did this because before ad tracking but it seems to work well. I also have microphones physically removed from all of my computing devices apart from my phone and tablet.

Privacy became a focus because a whimsical blog post of mine about copy protection became front-page news and I had my name and my parents address on the about page, asking for pizza donations (even though we didn't have pizza delivery at the time).
 
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