Concerned if the site is seized my regular email be exposed. Thanks

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    I create a new email for each new sign up so I immediately know who leaked it. If spam is coming I can close it

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      At that point, just get a custom domain with a catch-all email system. Any emails sent to the @[domain] address will hit your inbox, so you can do things like Target@[domain] and Walmart@[domain]. Then if you start getting spam from one of those, you know who leaked it and you can filter them into spam. All without needing to go through the hassle of creating a new email address.

      Hell, my password generator (Bitwarden) even has the option to create custom usernames for a catch-all system. It can either do them randomly (like the passwords) or pull them from whatever site I’m making the account on. So like it’ll pull the site’s title and use that as the e-mail address, then append the @[domain] to the end automatically.

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        This is exactly what I need to do. I have a custom domain attached to Protonmail. I’ve been using duck duck go for aliases with Bitwarden but this solution sounds perfect. I always wondered what that catch all option meant.

    • meseek #2982@lemmy.ca
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      Same. Have been doing this for like 5 years now. Oddly enough the spam that comes in is never from any of my aliases. Time well spent 🙃

      All kidding aside, it’s great that I can I just abandon them for random accounts that have nothing on me, further reducing the actual front facingness of my real email. If I this feature was there from the start, I’d never have spam!

    • shiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiit@sh.itjust.works
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      Other countries are available:

      Free ⁨Relay⁩ is available in most countries. ⁨Relay Premium⁩ is available in Austria, Bulgaria, Belgium, Canada, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malaysia, Malta, Netherlands, New Zealand, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Singapore, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, United Kingdom, and the United States.

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        And to think, I just got downvoted to fuck the other day because someone claimed wasn’t available in the UK. lol

        Thank you for clearing that up.

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            For all I know, you’re all one person lying about everything in this thread, but I’m guilty of upvoting everybody in here who seems to be knowledgeable and helpful lol. If I knew any better, I wouldn’t look at the comments in the first place.

          • Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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            Both hiveminds are very guilty in that department.
            At least you can now see the down-/upvotes in the UI instead of the aggregate amount.

  • Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    Icreated a new email on proton for tracker and piracy stuff. No need to have it associated with my regular email/persona

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    Get your multiple personalities on. Costs nothing to create a second identity for separate functions, bonus if there’s no cross contamination in the form of using one for the other’s recovery info.

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    Yes, you should. There’s a low probability that anything bad will happen but you might as well reduce that to zero. Private trackers (should) only email you for account creation confirmation and whenever you want a password reset.

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    Aliasing and forwarding is not a good solution if you are concerned about law enforcement, because your personal e-mail is still linked with the tracker, just behind an extra hop and in addition you allow someone in between to read your e-mails. You had the answer yourself. Create a completely fresh free e-mail account somewhere, using as minimum a private tab to prevent tracking data to link anything to the account… and if you can get a free e-mail account with IMAP/POP access so that you can use it in an e-mail client to leak less data, do that.

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    Realistically nobody’s going to expend the legal effort to come after owners of accounts on a site unless it’s very illegal content like CP. however it’s still a very smart idea to compartmentalize snd keep separate email accounts for different services so that it’s both harder to build profile on you, and also less likely to lose All Your Everything if one of the emails is compromised.

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    I recently started doing this for everything with Simple Login. You can create aliases either ahead of time or configure them to be ad hoc. I went the route of a custom subdomain, but that’s not required.

    • Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      The only emails I got on my tracker mail are the invite/confirmation and the invoices for my seedbox.

  • m-p{3}@lemmy.ca
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    You can go with an email proxy service, to name a few

    • Firefox Relay
    • SimpleLogin
    • Addy (Previously AnonAddy)
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        SimpleLogin. It’s owned by Proton, and I use their VPN and mail quite a bit. And it can be integrated with BitWarden to generate random usernames that forward to your mail account

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        Personally I chose Firefox Relay since I managed to grab premium for 1$/month, and I could integrate it with Bitwarden through the API.

  • Free Palestine 🇵🇸@sh.itjust.works
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    SimpleLogin allows you to create private email aliases, all emails sent to an alias will be forwarded to your real email address. I’ve been using this for over a year and it’s been great. If you pay for Proton Mail, you also get SimpleLogin Premium for free.