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This is why I lie about my birthdate by a couple of days on anything where it's not something like a medical record or where I am required to tell the truth for whatever reason. I also never provide my social security number unless it is required by law.

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One of my coworkers generates a fake middle name for every service they sign up with. According to him, this serves as a unique identifier allowing them to determine when a service is selling their data to a third party (or data is being leaked).

Fastmail has subdomain addressing, so if your email is jondoe@example.com, you can use hn@jondoe.example.com to sign up for HN.

That way you'll know for sure who leaks your data, and nobody's going to strip it away like some services would strip away plus addressing (as in, johndoe+hn@example.com).

I have excellent results with a subdomain. Even though PDL probably has a lot of data on me, they have (not yet?) been able to glue it to my primary mail address. That one only has my name, gender, github, country and name of my employer. They can't seem to map the remainder to anything else.

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