this post was submitted on 08 Dec 2023
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This is a community for designs specifically crafted to make the experience worse for the user. This can be due to greed, apathy, laziness or just downright scumbaggery.
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Here is how you can avoid it without clicking that link
Get an alias email or secondary email. Better yet a few.
Set them up so any important mails like people you know irl are forwarded to your proper email adress.
Never share your proper personal adress, not even with family. (Seriously they will enter it on we transfer to send you files or sm else and your spamfree days are over.
The best way to fight the fingerprinting is for us to all use the same throwaway email address.
I use [email protected] for shit like this.
I use legal@[website.com]
I figure if they're going to send spam, the legal department should be aware.
privacy@[website] is probably an even better route, since I've seen it commonly used for the actual data privacy officer / department / etc.
I use [email protected]
I’ve always been partial to [email protected]
The problem is that all the places that ask for email verify it. So it has to be something you can check.
Even Lemmy.world wants a real email and if you use a disposable email provider they say they'll kill your account when they eventually double check.
So you got a "primary Email" that has no spam but no Mails either because no one knows of it's existence? You could just do the very same with one mail address and a few filtering rules, you know? Besides: the best way around this are randomly generated Mails you use for one service only like duckduckgo.or Firefox relay will give you
If you want to email me, you can tell my private secretary, who will write down your message and send it to my personal email address.
He also doesn't know my personal email address, but we have a cryptographic system where he, a trusted anonymous randomly-chosen person (rotated weekly) and the president of Albania can all input their credentials and have the email sent to a proxy email which will forward to my personal address.
In unrelated news, why do I always miss my doctor's appointments?