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mjolnir76 t1_jditrez wrote

Been using this for several years. If the website doesn’t accept an email with a +, you can also just add random periods to your email. Works the same.

The advantage is now you know who is selling your email (looking at you Comcast!) and you can just block the email that is getting spammed.

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goodboytools t1_jdiya6q wrote

so if my email is goodboy.tools@gmail.com, are my emails also going to someone whose id is goodboy@gmail.com?

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mjolnir76 t1_jdj6l7f wrote

No. Gmail ignores all periods, not what comes after it (like it does for the +).

So goodboy.tools and goodboytools and g.oo.db.oy.t.ools are all the same to gmail.

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keepthetips t1_jdiqbo4 wrote

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TheGnomecop t1_jdiunpp wrote

This is a great tip until you need to recover your account or do a password reset and can't remember exactly what you made it. This practice in conjunction with a password manager is good though!

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RawVeganGuru OP t1_jdtf4or wrote

usually you can just use the whole website name, like my example of +walmart@gmail.com makes it easy

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