• WeirdSarah9@lemmy.world
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    1 month ago

    I got two e-mails just for these type of situations.

    One e-mail for the accounts I REALLY need/want/will keep (games, social media…)

    While my second one is just used for accounts I’ll only use once and those types of stuff.

    • brucethemoose@lemmy.world
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      1 month ago

      This is the way.

      What my sibling does is create a separate email (though an email service that supports it like proton) for every service. If someone sells them out to marketers, the spam will go to “patsdogfoodemail@protonmail.com” or something like that, and they’ll know exactly which company was responsible, and where to block all the spam from.

      And keep yet another, totally unrelated email for finances, so there’s less chance it’s ever hacked.

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      1 month ago

      I use simplelogin.io plus a cheap throwaway domain, every single service I sign up for has different credentials, so the absolute worst that could happen if this server got hacked is someone could log in as me.