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Your Gmail Account (and other e-mail) Has Unlimited Addresses - Useful For Seeing Who Leaked Your Address to Spammers (lifehacker.com)
submitted 2 years ago by GadgeteerZA@beehaw.org to c/technology@beehaw.org
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You can append to your existing e-mail address in various ways, and this could be pretty useful for seeing who leaked your e-mail address to spammers. For example, for your bank, give them the address myaddress+banking@gamil.com. Then, if spammers send to that address, you can quickly see where they got the e-mail address from!

I've tested it with Proton Mail, and it works in exactly the same way.

See https://lifehacker.com/your-gmail-account-has-unlimited-addresses-1849809691

#technology #email #antispam #privacy

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[–] GadgeteerZA@beehaw.org 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Well I can answer that because I just read about it today and thought it was quite interesting. So many still don't know about it hence the post.

[–] admin@beehaw.org 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I didn't know about this until now.

[–] kromonos@fapsi.be 3 points 2 years ago

Sorry for you both. It wasn't meant personally, but more in general, because so many people don't know about that feature.
Ok, it's not advertised very much, either.