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I never want my social media connected to other sites, and I never use the same email address for different sites.

How would this ever work for me?

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Wouldn't that also present an issue with usual password logins?

dude, how many fucking email addresses do you have then?

Some of us use myemail+sitespecific@gmail.com. It gets delivered to the same myemail@gmail.com. Other mail providers probably offer the same convenience.

Some nasty login forms block the '+' symbol from being used.

I sometimes use multiple dots to create an alias, but it only works for a fraction of e-mail providers (i.e. GMail). E.g.: example@example.com is the same as exa.mple@example.com.

FastMail supports tag@username.domain.tld

Not OP, but I do the same thing using wildcard addresses on a domain I own. I might use hn@my.domain for Hacker News, amzn@my.domain for Amazon and so on.

Foregoing the custom domain, some email providers also let you add tags to your address (e.g. your_address+tag@gmail.com). I'm aware of some people who use that functionality to have unique email addresses for each service.

I also use this method. Thanks to it I usually can check if e-mail was automated and also I am not disturbed by e-mails with social media notification, shop promos or marketing spam during work. Also some e-mail providers allow to create many e-mail aliases which shares the same inbox.

> dude, how many fucking email addresses do you have then?

  $ ldapsearch -LLL uid=dozzie mail | wc -l
  115

Is it supposed to be ridiculous or what?

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