Believe I also turned off all “promo” emails and communications of any sort in the settings while i did have linkedin… thinking about just straight up deleting it now instead of leaving the profile deactivated.

  • Midnight Wolf@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    4 months ago
    • Have your domain send all messages of unknown accounts sent to one ‘real’ address (catch-all)
    • Have unique email addresses for every website/service (use a password manager to keep track of credentials)
    • When an address gets compromised, caught in a data breach, etc just change the email address to a new address and also (see next)
    • When shit websites don’t respect opt-out/account closure/etc, send messages to that address to a black hole

    Squeeky-clean inbox, and a happy you

    • AA5B@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      4 months ago

      Plus now there are services that make this easier. I use “Hide my Email” in my iPhone but I’m sure there are other such services. It generates a unique email address that forwards to my real email, and stores it in the password manager. At any time I can simply click to stop the forwarding and it’s gone

      It seems to work! I only wish I had it sooner since most spam is from accounts where I had to use real email