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how?
I use Proton Mail, which lets you make 'aliases', which you can use for different sites. The alias forward staright to your main (or a nominated) email.
You can use https://simplelogin.io/ to do the same, and I'm sure there are similar services around.
E.g. I can't have [email protected] as my WhatsApp email, and it would forward to whatever account I normally use.
I do this for pretty much everything on line, so they all have their own bespoke email for me.
Would you say Proton Mail's aliases are better in some way than Firefox Relay? Do you have experience with both to give your impression of which you'd recommend over the other? Or perhaps anyone else would care to weigh in, feel free to do so. Thanks, friends!
I don't, I'm afraid. But I can say that creating and managing them through protons password manager is a breeze.
Nice. So you do that through the password manager and not the email interface?
You don't need to do it through the email interface. You can do it through many password managers (API key). With simplelogin and a custom domain you can set it up to use regexes and control the flow of emails to any number of inboxes. It's like a fine grained catch-all where you don't need to create the emails ahead of time and can "send as" any of them... or disable any if they start receiving spam.
If I wanted to activate a new Facebook I could just type [email protected] into the signup field and verify it seconds later. If I wanted it to go to both me and my brother, I could add his custom string (e.g. [email protected]).
I've been doing this for 2 years and only recently received my first spam. All I had to do was change the email with the service and disable the old address. Easy peasy. You can also disable the catch-all at any time if someone starts fucking your life. Then all you have to do is create a dozen emails ahead of time and assign them as needed.
Also u/umbrella
Also [email protected] ??
Sorry, yes you do. Because it's so interlinked in my mind I got that wrong. But deffot the easiest way to do it I've found (as long as you're using proton mail though, I guess...)
Okay, thanks for the info!