And you're forever on their "mailing list" because they don't process unsubscribes, since they probably just manually upload a .csv of everyone every time they want to send something to you, whether you ever opted in, or not.
This one is paid, but I’m at the point where $140 for 3 years “standard” package is fine by me. Not to mention I can actually call someone if I have a problem, instead of getting blocked by google for no particular reason without any recourse. I don’t have a huge social media following that can get me special treatment.
There may possibly be free options that allow you to proxy/mask emails, but I’ve not explored that.
Another useful service is privacy.com, which in a similar manner let’s me create proxy virtual payment cards, setting limits and redacting cards. This kills the possibility of a malicious business like a telecom still charging me for something and having the bank still allow it to go through when they shouldn’t. Now my credit union is pretty good so far, but there are a lot of banks that will happily fuck someone over without a care.
It’s nice having no mean _No_
I know I should probably get off of gmail, but it's a really good service for my needs.
It's also reasonably priced and there's no limit for those email addresses since it just captures every email sent to my domain.
Downside is I can't send from those addresses but that's generally okay for me.
Now I just mark any marketing email as spam and let the email service automatically move all future emails to spam.
Proton has SimpleLogin after buying it, but then they own me forever as much as the next company, with the caveat that they can raise fees. Just your username and (ridiculously crazy, 26 character) password isn’t good enough anymore-“oops, we need to send you an email before you can log in” is rapidly becoming normal.
I do something like that too, but I have my own SMTP server. It doesn't use + it is just an entirely different email address for each one.
I can also easily send from any address by the -r switch.