I always use unique email as well. Just recently I started getting spam at [email protected]. It was easy to see where spam came from and add New Relic to the list of companies I’d not do business with.
@Fastmail: Another request. If I’m using my own domain, could the email generated be simpler?
Instead of “some.thing1234@”, I’d rather just have “thing1234@“.
Update: hmmm… looks like I can’t initiate an email with masked email though. I can set up my wildcard to do that in the more rare case when I need to initiate email.
@Fastmail: Please let me delete a masked email after creating it. Thanks.
I just tried it with my own domain via the Fastmail iOS app. There doesn’t seem to be a way to delete things.
I do like that I can attach notes and have an easy block button. I might start using it instead of my existing wildcard setup, but need delete.
Using unique email per service is really great. I detected Zenni Optical either had a security breach or sold my information because of the unique email I used.
If you're not sure you want to delete your Facebook account completely, but think maybe you might want to reduce your use of it, then uninstalling the app from your phone is very helpful (Assuming you have it on your phone).
That worked very well for me. I used to have it on my phone and would check it all the time. Then I decided I didn't want to do that so I uninstalled it from my phone. Doing so helped me reduce and eventually stop using the website.
In between those times I also had a browser plugin to hide the news feed. So if I do login, I see nothing.
Now I'm basically rarely on Facebook. I have an account, but I don't feel I need to delete it because the account doesn't control or affect me. I can still get messages, and Facebook keeps trying to get me back into it with their notification emails, but I'm in control and I feel great about that.