Oh good, just what we need after a pandemic... everyone and their mother pressing their dirty hands to the same machine that never gets cleaned.

I don't know if this is still accurate but for a long while Gmail was set up so that you could have name@gmail as your regular email and then do a "dot alias" to identify where the email came from. So Name.FoodLion@gmail would still deliver to your regular email address but it would show the dot designation. So now when food Lion sells your data to some other company and you start getting non food lion emails using that Food Lion address you know who sold your data.

I have a multitude of email addresses that are made for specific purposes. I have a personal email address that only goes out to friends and family and never signs up for anything. I have an official email address for any government related services and never signs up for anything not a government website. I have another one just for gaming and only signs up for gaming related accounts. I have another one just for my bank and only my bank and my email service knows it exists. I have another one for useless fluff stuff, where I don't care about it and it's not synced anywhere but I need to have an email account like pizza restaurant website or something. Then I have the truly fluff account that I hand out to anyone who's asking but I really don't care about their services at all. Need an email address for me to sign up for your store membership card? You get the junk email address.

Compartmentalizing my emails has been a godsend. For the most part it's been near 20 years since I started this and the various mailboxes arely ever get any junk mail except for the two accounts that are specifically designed for junk services... But I don't have them synced to any accounts to constantly pester me with junk mail and no one that I care about knows that they exist so I never have to look at them to try to find important emails anyhow.

Hurray the English language! In this instance 'by accident' would mean the person was not actively TRYING to find a way to bypass the lock screen, rather that he happened across it while doing something else. They did not use the term 'accident' to imply the guy dropped his phone and it unlocked. That the entire process involves a few steps does not invalidate that it was discovered 'by accident'.

Example: Post-It Note glue and WD-40 were so totally the intended results and not 'discovered by accident' while trying to create a completely different chemical than what resulted in their experiments so we should just ignore those inventions entirely and downplay their significance cause the inventor didn't just combine two chemicals together and snap his fingers to make something appear but because they both involve a complicated process of multiple steps they couldn't possibly have been discovered by accident.

Damned HOA Karen's.