• LANIK2000@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    That’s not even a boomer complaint. Zoomer here. I fucking hate how everything needs an account. I recently started cleaning up my mail box and this shit makes that nigh impossible. I especially hate it when it’s just a shitty novelty site, if it needs an account, you bet your ass I ain’t ever using it, piss off!

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      3 months ago

      make an email for different things, such as one for subscriptions, one for things like this, one for professional use, etc. it’s annoying but also helps 🤷🏻 i hate that we’re at this point lol

      • Bob@feddit.nl
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        3 months ago

        My trick is that I use a domain name I’ve bought for my personal emails which is a catch-all address, and I sign up to websites with “(websitename)login@domain.url”, so I’m assuming I’ll know who the culprit is when the time comes and I can do something about it with relative ease. I don’t know if that’s actually smart or not but I’ll see how I get on.

        • bobo@lemmy.world
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          3 months ago

          I do the same and use simple login as a service to manage the emails. They all get forwarded to a single mailbox, but I can easily activate/deactivate individual addresses. Also, I have all incoming addresses blacklisted by default, unless they match a particular regex. That way, I can create new email addresses as needed without needing to pull any levers, but im still protected against someone spamming my domain (unless they figure out my regex)

      • Pika@sh.itjust.works
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        3 months ago

        I just auto tag using the term “unsubscribe”. It tags as “automated/spam” unless another filter such as banking, games, or in contacts triggers