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[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 year ago (4 children)

For the email, you can use an email alias service like Addy or SimpleLogin. They're both open-source and offer free tiers. I never give out my real email to anyone now except actual contacts.

After that, I think a VPN would probably still work to disguise what you're doing from Walmart, but I'm not a 100% certain on that so I won't link any.

But yeah, definitely use email alias wherever you can.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Do you do that with utility companies and bills?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I do and it works great! I mostly did this to limit the blast radius of breaches, but aliases also provide an easy way to send those kinds of things to both me and my spouse.

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