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I don't trust websites to not spam me and I don't trust them to not share my email with other spammers. I would never give my email to some unknown character. It's not an unreasonable position.

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I've long since given up on that. I plaster my email address al over the internet, so that people can contact me. It means I get spam of course, but that's what spam filters were invented to deal with. Very little actual spam ends up in my inbox.

If you need to keep your email address secret, I suggest that you're doing the internet wrong.

Yes, everyone who disagrees with you is doing the internet wrong. FFS

I have many email addresses. Some I use exclusively for things like signups, messages to which are diverted to particular folder on my mail client. I only ever dip into that folder to click activation links and password resets. Getting spam to those addresses has zero negative impact on me. I would have imagined this behavior is quite common.

I suspect it's not as common as you think. I have many email addresses, and a couple of my friends (who work in tech) do, but the vast majority of the people I know only have one (or two, if they have one leftover from school, etc.).

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