Assuming a password manager is used, even jfav0ohjau4gvncgan19@domain should be OK.

On the other hand, I might just be overthinking it. It could even look suspicious to customer support, or is that again just overthinking?

Also, there already will necessarily be some predictable ones, such as work@domain, although servicename@domain would provide even more possible matches.

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[–] 5 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

service@domain.tld won't actually prevent spam, it will just give you the grim satisfaction of knowing which service leaked. I used that pattern for a few years and the only thing it was ever really useful for was figuring out that a service I signed up for years prior had changed their name or used a third party service to handle portions of their site features.

If you're careful about what you sign up for, spam shouldn't really be a concern. The places you're most likely to get spam from are your contacts email getting compromised, sketch online services that go out of business, and big services outsourcing marketing. Just be sure to religiously unsubscribe from any promotional materials because the longer your email remains contactable on a list, the more likely it is to be shared/sold by some shitbag marketing firm.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 weeks ago (1 child)

    Compactflax.myfitnesspal@domain gets a TON of spam.

    other than that it’s actually surprising how little I get.

    But damn that leak went far

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  • [–] 1 point 2 weeks ago

    Spam is thankfully pretty much a thing of the past. I had to stop using a couple of my primary emails because they were just getting drowned in spam, like a hundred messages a day if not more.

    Then Sender Policy Framework came out, which went a long way to reducing spam, then came DKIM and DMARC and it's now really down to very manageable levels, and I've been able to start using both those email addresses again. They do still get some spam, but no more than 1-3 a day now.

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