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You want your own domain. I don't know how I'd cope with the mess the internet is without an infinite supply of disposable email addresses.

The next question I always get is about how annoying it is to go make an email address in the middle of checking out is. I personally always have a shell open - I'm a command line person. So I just run a script, `nem spammystore-com190621`, done. (And then `dem spammystorewhatever` when they start annoying me.)

I've fantasized about writing a browser plugin that scans the page for entered email addresses and shells out to create them on submit, but (a) I'm not even sure that's entirely possible anymore, and (b) wiring my browser up to something that runs sudo on remote machines seems like maybe not the best idea I've ever had.

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You could create a SUID executable on your remote machine that gets addresses from an unprivileged account and creates the mailboxes, or a daemon that gets them from the network.

But I guess the easiest way would be to throw all the email into a catch-all inbox and filter it by mailbox.

Anyway, I've stopped doing that after I got locked out of a store because I couldn't remember the address I registered, and it would neither let me reset my password without I entering my email or create a new account with the same data of one that already existed. Luckily this one a shitty store so getting locked out was a gain, but the odds of this happening to something important are not low.

I used to use a different email address for placing orders, requesting info, etc. and then I'd just check that inbox when I was looking for something or just wanted to skim to look for deals, etc. However, as tends to happen with filtering, I basically just stopped looking. And I didn't really mean all of this mail to go to dev/null.

These days I tend to find that Google tabs work well enough that I don't really get overwhelmed by all the email going to the Promotions tab.

It’s possible with native messaging. You write a content script that injects some JavaScript to check the page that then messages with background page that then messages an external application. Though I likely would make it a page action or a context menu action.

I think if you’re on OS X that it would be easier to write a small automater action that you register as a service that after you select some text and right click it it parses the text and calls the shell command.

I have a catch-all inbox on my domain so there's no setup. I can just enter <whatever_i_want>@example.com and I'll get the email in the catch-all inbox.

I did that for a while, but stopped probably a decade ago. A spam robot educated me about my mistake when it sent me many, many gigs of crap, using a dictionary of some sort to guess usernames. Surprise! they all "worked".

No need for the dictionary: I regularly get spam to addresses that are just random sequences of letters.

> You want your own domain. I don't know how I'd cope with the mess the internet is without an infinite supply of disposable email addresses.

I'd be surprised if there isn't a service for that.

There's tons. https://www.spamgourmet.com/ https://www.mailinator.com/

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