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Basically create an alias for every combination to prevent privacy cross contamination.

For instance, not only should you make an email alias for an Eventbrite account, but for every organization you sign up for events with. You are required to enter an email (any email) for the event, which can be seen by both Eventbrite and the organization. If you enter in the email of your Eventbrite account then the org could give that away, resulting in email spam and you can't be sure if it was either Eventbrite itself or the org that sold you out. If that happens then you would probably want to delete email address but then you have to change it in other places you need to send/receive emails from.

Another example is Discourse forum sites. While Discourse is open source and self-hostable, you may not always be sure if a Discourse site is self-hosted or using paid hosting. A lot online places have both their own website and a separate discourse site. Bitwarden's forum site doesn't have a sign-in option using your Bitwarden.com account, and Raindrop.io uses canny.io to track app feedback which has also uses its own login. (I'm actually glad I made an alias for every single Discourse forum site before realizing all of this).

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[–] [email protected] 21 points 6 days ago (7 children)

Buy a domain and set your email to catchall, then make a unique email for everything and don't fiddle with aliases.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 6 days ago (2 children)

Then you end up with an inbox full of drive-by spam to abuse/admin/aardvark/.. (insert dictionary here)../zack/ziggy.

[–] akilou 2 points 6 days ago

Is this experience or conjecture?

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