That’s a use case for aliases, catching if any company or service gives out your email to be abused by advertisers and whatnot. I tried looking for stories but didn’t find any, I wonder if you have any to share.

  • Chais@sh.itjust.works
    8·
    5 months ago

    Kickstarter has a massive spam problem in my experience and best I can tell it’s not talked about.
    I backed a single project, immediately deactivated any and all communication from KS, except for that project, but I keep getting mails from different domains, advertising various stupid crowdfunding projects.
    I have 16 blocked mails in the last week alone.

    • sansrealname@lemmy.ml
      3·
      5 months ago

      Same, I think. Several years now with over 220 aliases and none sold/stolen that I’ve caught. That said, some may have ended up in the spam folder without me ever noticing.

  • gopher510@lemm.eeEnglish
    2·
    5 months ago

    Strangely no. I wonder if it being a @proton address is enough to kill the spam service. Many legit websites won’t accept an @proton either, idk.

  • birdcat@lemmy.ml
    1·
    5 months ago

    never in all those many many years. imo the main benefit is disabling mails from the corp u give it and only enable when needed, so i blocked thousands of unwanted mails.

    and with addy.io all gets pgp encrypted, which is another major benefit.