• kameecoding@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    You can also create aliases on most sites by adding a + and a suffix to your email

    eg. Register with the site name

    your.email+stubhub@gmail.com

    And then if you get fed up just set up a filter to put everything that comes to that specific address into the trash

    But the thing to do is that if they dont send you a link that automatically undubscribes you is to mark it as spam

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      6 months ago

      A lot of services won’t let you use the +, and it’s also trivial to get rid of the extension with Regex.

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      6 months ago

      You can also create aliases on most sites by adding a + and a suffix to your email

      You can never disable those aliases, though. The best you can do is write a filter that sends them to trash. With a good email alias system, you can actually disable an alias, so that emails to it just bounce back.

      Many services just strip out everything at the + so I instead have a catchall account use email addresses like sitename@example.com. For addresses that start getting spam, I add them to a config in rspamd that bounces them. (I self-host my email server)