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Hide My Email - Too much friction?
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I was thrilled with Apple's hide my email when it was announced. Then I went through the process and abandoned it.
It was much less friction to just register a new domain and have anything that arrives there forwarded to my main email box. Need a new email, just generate a random string of characters and add the domain at the end, done.
While not as "private" it mitigates my primary concerns. Every website that uses email address for login now has a completely unique one, no email address ever gets used twice. If an email leaks in a breach and starts getting spammed, (a) I know exactly who leaked my email address, (b) I simply create a rule to blacklist any email to that address avoiding the spam problem.