I've been using Abine's "Do Not Track Me" add-on in my browser (Firefox and Chrome). It's pretty seamless -- it detects an email address field and pops up a box asking me if I want to anonymize it. If I say yes, it generates a hashed email address and fills in the field for me. It'll remember the site and email address for future reference if you allow the browser to remember such things. I track it myself in a separate file as well.
When email comes in from that site, it gets filtered through Abine's forwarding server first. It contains a box at the top of the email with info about what it did and how to block future messages. So if you track each site's anonymized email address for you, you'll know who sold your info and be able to disable it so it no longer forwards to you. You can then complain and/or generate a new address for the original site. It's been working quite well so far. -Adam On Wed, Nov 12, 2014 at 2:35 PM, Susan Baur <[email protected]> wrote: > On Nov 12, 2014, at 8:22 AM, Brian Mathis < > [email protected]> wrote: > > > The modern way to do this is by using "plus addressing", which is a > standard (though not supported by all email hosts) where you tag your > regular email address like this: > > [email protected] > > This solves the problems of "too much mail -- I need to filter it" but > doesn't completely address the main things that I am searching for in > disposable addresses: Namely, figure out who has given my address to > spammers and disabling that address after it's been given to spammers. (And > not letting a gmail savvy spammer figure out my main address). > > Am I missing something about gmail implementation that addresses these > needs? > > --Susan > > > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss > This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators > http://lopsa.org/ >
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