- cross-posted to:
- privacy@lemmy.ml
- cross-posted to:
- privacy@lemmy.ml
I’m seeing lots of people subscribing with their real email address to different newsletters or random websites that they might use once in a while.
For a couple of years I have run a proxy SMTP that I kept to forward emails to my real address, as a privacy measure.
People tend to use the “+” sign in order to identify if they address was sold, for example signing up with “michael.john+amazon@gmail.com”, now what most do not realize is the fact that when selling data to third parties, most companies parse their email lists and clear our those “+” sign. (Source: I have worked with companies that do that)
I found the relay from Mozilla to be massively useful in this case, so if anyone is interested, have a try with it:
Fastmail is another option that supports custom domains and wildcard addresses. It’s about $5 a month. Once you start utilizing your own domain, you can easily change email hosts if you don’t like one. The hardest part of this process is changing every service from your current Gmail or whatever address because you have to do it one at a time.
Fastmail will be your email host and you can send email using From addresses in your domain.