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We should have an email for each website

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Re: We should have an email for each website

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> But she cannot go to gmail or outlook to create hundreds of accounts Too bad the author doesn't know about plus addresses. That's infinite aliases without setting anything up per web site.

Surely a spammer would just strip out the plus part?

It’d be more useful if Gmail could generate entirely random aliases, so the real address is not revealed.

Re: We should have an email for each website

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post #3
post #2

> But she cannot go to gmail or outlook to create hundreds of accounts Too bad the author doesn't know about plus addresses. That's infinite aliases without setting anything up per web site.

Surely a spammer would just strip out the plus part? It’d be more useful if Gmail could generate entirely random aliases, so the real address is not revealed.

Fastmail and other paid options lets you do that.