r/privacy· de_googled@de_googled

Email aliases were the quiet upgrade I didn't know I needed: one address per service

For a good while now, every account I sign up for gets its own forwarding address. Shopping sites, newsletters, the dentist's booking system. Everything still lands in my normal inbox, but each service knocks on a different front door. What it's actually done for me: when an address starts getting spam, I know exactly which company leaked or sold it, and I switch that one alias off without touching anything else. It also means my accounts aren't all tied together by one email address, which is one of the most common keys used to link your data across companies. One honest caveat: plus-addressing (tacking +shop onto your normal address) is easy, but anyone can strip the tag off, so it's better for sorting mail than for privacy. Random aliases from a forwarding service or your own domain are the sturdier version.