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Email Aliasing is a Great Privacy Tool (avoidthehack.com)
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[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

In my opinion, email aliasing is the best tool when you share a domain name with a bunch of other people. The more, the merrier!

Hosting a custom domain is cool and all, but unless you share it with friends, two data breaches could tie your accounts together if somebody was reasonably competent about identifying domains that aren't typically associated with email hosting.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago

i agree, and so I tend to prefer a mix of aliases on a custom domain (to give out in person) and shared domains for signing up to webpages. This does unfortunately come with the fact that many websites will block these domains, which make it a lot harder to work with :(