Randomly getting Notion email, after having deleted my account years ago... ( slrpnk.net )

Welp I guess this is the perfect example of companies not deleting your credentials and account info when asking for it... I deleted my Notion account several years ago. And completely randomly today got an email from them about data retention, assuming this is one of those "important" emails they have to send out. Sadly, years ago I wasnt using email-aliases like I am today, so still stuck with them having my email. Fuck I hate this so much. Thought I'd just share this lesson, use alises my friends!

Blizzard ,
@Blizzard@lemmy.zip avatar

Send a GDPR demand to delete your data.

umbrella ,
@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.

Scolding0513 ,

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

NeroC_Bass ,

I got an email from century link yesterday asking how my service was, when I had it disconnected 8 years ago, and I got one from apple today about my account, when I deleted it 10 years ago.
They don't care.

Scolding0513 ,

yep, they couldnt give two shits, and all the lawsuits in the world are too weak to do anything meaningful.

Always protect yourself first and foremost, never trust anyone unless you have to!

skeezix ,

Don’t sweat it pal, i got emails from FedEx for 8 years.

Sunny OP ,
@Sunny@slrpnk.net avatar

Yeah, I really shouldn't. It's just annoying, that's all.

just_another_person ,

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    brbposting ,

    I’d even recommend going one step further and deleting their account, but I didn’t read the post

    :p i keed

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