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Scolding0513 , in Randomly getting Notion email, after having deleted my account years ago...

this is the company that Skiff sold out to. sad.

umbrella , in Randomly getting Notion email, after having deleted my account years ago...
@umbrella@lemmy.ml avatar

tell me more about how you use aliases.

you just using a new one for every service?

lazynooblet ,
@lazynooblet@lazysoci.al avatar

Back when I used self hosted mail, I wrote an extension that requested a new alias based on the domain of the website.

Like [email protected]

If the site got compromised I would update the random characters.

I still have 800+ aliases left over from this. But after moving to hosted mail I never updated the extension.

9point6 , (edited )

Surprisingly little known fact, email addresses actually have the concept of aliases built in (and it's relatively well supported despite being a bit niche):

[email protected]

Will end up in the inbox of

[email protected]

But will retain the alias in the To field

The downside is that if a sender is particularly shitty it could detect this and remove the alias again.

gratux ,
@gratux@lemmy.blahaj.zone avatar

Note: not every provider supports this.

Also, gmail addresses ignore periods. [email protected] and [email protected] will end up in the same inbox

Sunny OP ,
@Sunny@slrpnk.net avatar

Yes indeed, password managers have the option to do this, at least Protonpass and Bitwarden. While Bitwarden you need to connect a third party email service. But it's relatively easy, especially with Protonpass as it will automatically suggest to do this when you create an account somewhere.

idefix , in Thoughts on Nothing Phone 2 running with e/os?

I'd like to use a custom ROM on my S21FE, but options are very limited unfortunately.

Ilandar , in Thoughts on Nothing Phone 2 running with e/os?

Just be aware that everyone has a different idea of how much privacy they need and who/what from. Whilst it is absolutely true that there are more private custom ROMs available, that does not necessarily mean that /e/ is universally "bad for privacy". Depending on the extent to which you are attempting to deGoogle your life, it may be good enough.

Templa , in Instagram locked my account and forced me to appeal and send a picture of my face, so I sent a picture of Shrek. They deleted my account
@Templa@beehaw.org avatar

I've had this happen and did upload the selfie but I think it happened because I was blocking some extra stuff that it was flagging my account to be automated

Blizzard , in Randomly getting Notion email, after having deleted my account years ago...
@Blizzard@lemmy.zip avatar

Send a GDPR demand to delete your data.

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