2y ago

Is it better to use a non-FOSS email and phone number forwarder or to use one of each for everything?

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I like to try websites out before tying my identity to them. How do you do it? Simplelogin? I honestly won't manually make a new gmail for every new website I try and I to want the option to see what emails I get.

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I host my own Simplelogin instance and generate a new address for every service. Combined with Bitwarden, I now have a unique address and password combination for each account.
- I.. did not know you could self host. Well that's neat.
- I’m still not clear on the value proposition of simplelogin.
  I seem to get the same thing with a domain and a catch all address.
  
  How do you reply to emails to your catch-all?
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- Which of those work for phone numbers (SMS validation)? Email is easy.
I'd never use a temp email when I'm paying, considering they have my CC info. For random accounts that I won't check the mail accounts of, temp is great. Not going to trust a company for this.
- Those addresses are there until you delete them. What does them having your CC have to do with it? Better yet, why do they have a CC? Meaning a real one? Not a masked one? Fuck that!
  
  Ah, you'd use Privacy.com? Decent idea I suppose.
With gmail if you have an account like example@gmail.com you can then sign up for a website such as netflix with email example+netflix@gmail.com and gmail will forward it to example@gmail.com, but you'll still see the full address on the To line so you'll know where the mail came from. Anything after the + can be whatever you want. This lets you sign up with a different email address for every site you visit without having to create new addresses with gmail. You can also make a filter to hide spam if one of the addresses is compromised.
- only works with very simple scripts though - I'd assume that checking for a '+' in front of the '@' and removing everything inbetween is very simple if your goal is to spam everyone from a data-leak
  
  That's very true. I cannot attest to the knowledge and skills of potential spammers. However, more common than data leaks are data selling, and I doubt any company would bother to manipulate the email addresses they buy from others.
I feel like numbers are much more difficult, aren't they? There are limits to how many there are, and the generally cost money to register. How does generating a unique number per service per user work?

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