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rationalistlast Saturday at 4:05 PM4 repliesview on HN

Using a separate email address for each site is smart, but creating a separate email account for each site is going to be very tedious, and I imagine Google, Yahoo, etc are going to stop you very quickly after you've opened 20+ accounts with the same phone number.

(Use a catch-all to have different email addresses for different sites, because when one gets hacked, then the damage is limited.)


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8cvor6j844qw_d6last Saturday at 5:32 PM

Using your own domain that you control for emails also comes with the advantage of easily moving providers, should there be any issues.

Hopefully, domain registrars are less prone to locking people out compared to Apple, given cause of the lockout is caused by Apple itself.

Reminds me of the time Namecheap stopped doing business with Russian accounts, even then they still gave some time for them to transfer their domains.

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tomrodlast Saturday at 5:14 PM

Proton allows you to alias. But a lot of places prevent aliases, which is silly. I shouldn't have to give an email to demo your chatbot.

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a2fzlast Saturday at 4:42 PM

https://sidebox.net is a nice way to do this as long as the site doesn't restrict to mainstream email domains

zygentomalast Saturday at 4:43 PM

Google allows email suffices a la my [email protected].

So you can use different email addresses for different accounts while having only one Gmail account.

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