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Buy a domain and set your email to catchall, then make a unique email for everything and don't fiddle with aliases.
There is no one-size-fits-all solution and there likely isn't a solution that works for everyone even in specific situations due to different threat models. Purchasing and using a custom domain is often listed as a good practice for maintaining a person's privacy. However, it can be even more detrimental to a person's privacy than just using a trusted email masking/forwarding service and trusted email provider. For example:
Please note that I am not saying that this is not a good option, but I just wanted to note some of the things that should be considered if a person decides to use a custom email domain to improve their digital privacy.
Which provider are you using? They don't all offer catch-all
I still have a 15 year old free Google workspace plan with that option, but I'm looking for an alternative, not excessively expensive
If you own the domain you can do everything. iCloud has a very generous 50gb plan for 1€ per month
Previously Tuta (I don't recommend them, they're going down a path slow enshittification)
Now Disroot, which lets you use a custom domain with a catchall for a one time payment. https://disroot.org/en/perks
Then you end up with an inbox full of drive-by spam to abuse/admin/aardvark/.. (insert dictionary here)../zack/ziggy.
Is this experience or conjecture?
Is that something you have experience with or are you just making up scenarios to pose as arguments?
Because I've been doing this for years and I don't have this issue. You could also just preemptively auto-trash anything that goes to those very common emails, but I don't and it's not an issue.