There is another folder for those custom emails: Promotions. Gmail does a pretty good job of categorization.
Tell HN: After 10 years of experiments, custom username emails receive no spam
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Re: Tell HN: After 10 years of experiments, custom username emails receive no spam
#142Where I'm getting (or rather was getting) spam, apart from my main address:
- My Kickstarter address (well-known leak).
- My Paypal address (probably leaked through a web shop).
Both email addresses have been blocked since then. I also got a spam mail through one address I used for a forum, though the forum owner denied that they were ever hacked, and it stayed at that one single mail, so... not sure what happened there. So yeah, it does happen, and when it happens it's nice being able to just block that address completely within seconds and use a new one.
Re: Tell HN: After 10 years of experiments, custom username emails receive no spam
#143I do the same, and so far I've had two leak through:
1. keen.io when they sold to a PE firm 2. 1password - we're not sure why this one happened, 1password's security team worked with me to dig into it and it's likely that the name I used was just too generic and landed on a keyword list.
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#144I've been doing a similar thing and I do occasionally see things. I've recently been getting spam from my Mackie email, for instance—They were either compromised or sold off their email list.
More often I've had to directly block companies whose unsubscribe links just wouldn't work. I have a very low tolerance for that—If I unsubscribe I mean it.
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#145Is the fear of "people selling your email to spammers" a modern myth, or are spam filters that good? Email databases for sale are not always for spam or malware. They are often used for tracking and cross marketing calculations. Placing a companies name in the address will signal a canary and they may likely filter your contact out of their database or at least flag it and treat it differently. I've been using email…
I was offered a few employee discounts by front line associate because of using an email address with a company name. I declined but found it awkward to explain the details.
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#146Been using Hide My Email from Apple’s iCloud and I’ve been really loving it!
Semi permanent fake addresses ending in @icloud.com that forward to my gmail address. Apple is also one of the few companies I’d probably trust to the task.
Wish it was a standalone app rather than buried in the settings menu.
Re: Tell HN: After 10 years of experiments, custom username emails receive no spam
#147I do the same but regularly get spam. I just got a spam email today for automobile insurance and the source was an automotive buying company I used about a month ago. The businesses don't appear to be related in any way.
The strangest one ever was an email address given to a boutique spa hotel in Oregon showing up on spam announcing a new production from a local California community musical theatre. I must have given the hotel my zipcode as well so the email was sold based upon my location.
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#148I think it might be related to the loading of remote image / tracking pixel, but since I started using mutt, my spam has been reduced by about 30%. I don't think I have changed anything else.
Re: Tell HN: After 10 years of experiments, custom username emails receive no spam
#149Is the fear of "people selling your email to spammers" a modern myth, or are spam filters that good? Email databases for sale are not always for spam or malware. They are often used for tracking and cross marketing calculations. Placing a companies name in the address will signal a canary and they may likely filter your contact out of their database or at least flag it and treat it differently. I've been using email…
Fastmail offers a masked email feature for one-time email addresses: https://www.fastmail.help/hc/en-us/articles/4406536368911-Ma...
The 1Password integration doesn’t work for me. Not sure why :-(
Re: Tell HN: After 10 years of experiments, custom username emails receive no spam
#150my email address is very guessable. I've been using iCloud's anonymous email feature since it rolled out a couple versions of MacOS ago, and my spam has decreased dramatically.