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cesiuum t1_j5tc2j6 wrote

Compartmentalize and use alias if possible.

Saved me the trouble from identifying which services abused my e-mail and kept spamming me.

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cleaning_my_room_ t1_j5uqd48 wrote

I have my own domain set up with an email wildcard so any address followed by @mydomain.net (not my real domain) goes to my inbox. I set up a new address for every website or email list.

I also have email rules to automatically put email in folders or delete it based on what address they send to (or from).

So not only can I see when my address was leaked or sold, I can easily filter it out when it happens.

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uzlonewolf t1_j5xg16l wrote

Same, but I also use 5 different domains to mix things up even more. I also embed creation dates in them and rotate them every now and then to further narrow down when they were sold/stolen.

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itsagoodtime t1_j5toyoq wrote

Do you know who abused it

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Myte342 t1_j5uc9bp wrote

I don't know if this is still accurate but for a long while Gmail was set up so that you could have name@gmail as your regular email and then do a "dot alias" to identify where the email came from. So Name.FoodLion@gmail would still deliver to your regular email address but it would show the dot designation. So now when food Lion sells your data to some other company and you start getting non food lion emails using that Food Lion address you know who sold your data.

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nzodd t1_j5vjsvf wrote

On the other hand people are wise to it know so it probably doesn't offer the protection it once did.

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