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This was inevitable. If you’re leaking the info that you’re using a proxy, it’ll eventually be used by people who want to. One solution is a traditional webmai
by twhb 5y ago
This was inevitable. If you’re leaking the info that you’re using a proxy, it’ll eventually be used by people who want to.
One solution is a traditional webmail provider being willing to reuse that primary user domain for forwarding addresses. There are two that I know of doing this, Fastmail with @fastmail.com and Apple with @icloud.com. These domains probably won’t ever be blacklisted, because you’d also blacklist a ton of primary email addresses. (Aliases, which most providers have, tend to be too inconvenient and quantity limited.)
Another solution is to use different addresses at your own domain, which trades anonymity against the company you sign up with for freedom to change providers.
I think all three of these, including announced proxies like MPR, can be the best solution depending on whether you just want to be able to cut contact or you want privacy, and from whom.
- npteljes 5y agoPosteo.net also allows creating aliases, so effectively you can create disposable email addresses. The aliases use the same domain.
- discardedrefuse 5y agoFastmail is excellent. They have subdomain addressing, which is kind of like plus addressing, but better (not all places let you sign up with plus addressing). I've got my own domain, for example: mydomain.com. So my fastmail email address is depingus@mydomain.com. But with subdomain addressing, I can sign up for services with unique email addresses that look like: social.hackernews@depingus.mydomain.com Fastmail will automatically route incoming messages arriving to this email address to my "social" folder. If I start getting junk to that address I can easily blacklist it. It wasn't easy switching out my email address EVERYWHERE. And there are places that won't even let me change it. But in the end, it was so worth it. I don't even miss Google Inbox anymore!
- cstrat 5y agoI did the same thing a few years back, I love it. It has allowed me to find where my emails are being leaked. So far not too many which is good, the biggest and worst were ledger and instagram.
- Nextgrid 5y agoI know Facebook is cancer and all but I'm still surprised they'd be leaking them as their business model relies on capturing personal data but not giving it away.