• TootGuitar@reddthat.com
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    1 year ago

    I agree with the tradeoffs stated here, but I’d argue that any email address you hand out can serve as a unique data point, tied to you.

    [email protected] for obvious reasons.

    [email protected] — easy to filter out the plus and everything after, and it’s very likely more people use this format than [email protected], making more likely that this filtering would actually be automatically applied.

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      1 year ago

      What about email relays? [email protected] doesn’t seem like it could be tied to me, then firefox relay forwards the email to my actual email address.

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        1 year ago

        Yeah, email relays are probably better. I wasn’t necessarily considering those in my comment. But there are tradeoffs there too; now all your incoming mail can be read by a 3rd party, and there’s one more server between you and your email that needs to be up and working for you to properly receive mail.