You can append to your existing e-mail address in various ways, and this could be pretty useful for seeing who leaked your e-mail address to spammers. For example, for your bank, give them the address [email protected]. Then, if spammers send to that address, you can quickly see where they got the e-mail address from!

I’ve tested it with Proton Mail, and it works in exactly the same way.

See https://lifehacker.com/your-gmail-account-has-unlimited-addresses-1849809691

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  • unix84@lemmy.sdf.org
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    1 year ago

    Most data harvesting companies filter out anything after the plus sign. Google made this easy for a reason.

    It’s just easier to have an email service that allows multiple aliases.