Submitted by RawVeganGuru t3_120sczv in LifeProTips
When you would normally input your email to a website like JohnSmith@gmail.com instead add the company like JohnSmith+walmart@gmail.com
Everything will still be sent to your normal email
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[deleted] t1_jdirlmr wrote
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[deleted] t1_jdirx08 wrote
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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.
[deleted] t1_jdiu1tb 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!
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?
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.
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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