Is it better to use a non-FOSS email and phone number forwarder or to use one of each for everything?
Is it better to use a non-FOSS email and phone number forwarder or to use one of each for everything?
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I like to try websites out before tying my identity to them. How do you do it? Simplelogin? I honestly won't manually make a new gmail for every new website I try and I to want the option to see what emails I get.
I host my own Simplelogin instance and generate a new address for every service. Combined with Bitwarden, I now have a unique address and password combination for each account.
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Which of those work for phone numbers (SMS validation)? Email is easy.
With gmail if you have an account like [email protected] you can then sign up for a website such as netflix with email [email protected] and gmail will forward it to [email protected], but you'll still see the full address on the To line so you'll know where the mail came from. Anything after the + can be whatever you want. This lets you sign up with a different email address for every site you visit without having to create new addresses with gmail. You can also make a filter to hide spam if one of the addresses is compromised.
only works with very simple scripts though - I'd assume that checking for a '+' in front of the '@' and removing everything inbetween is very simple if your goal is to spam everyone from a data-leak
That's very true. I cannot attest to the knowledge and skills of potential spammers. However, more common than data leaks are data selling, and I doubt any company would bother to manipulate the email addresses they buy from others.
I feel like numbers are much more difficult, aren't they? There are limits to how many there are, and the generally cost money to register. How does generating a unique number per service per user work?