How do you protect your real-name email address?

Privacy Questions
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Using aliases from SimpleLogin (or other services like that) is very useful for one-time purchases, newsletters, etc. but how do you deal with situations where it feels like you should use firstname.lastname@domain.com ?

For example, when looking for work, it’s advisable (at least where I live) to use such email. But you have to provide this email address all over the Internet, sometimes registering to a given company’s custom recruitment portal. How do you deal with potential leaks or spam in such situations? This is an email address that you cannot easily disable or change. I wonder what strategy would be best to use here.

Even if you don’t provide such address anywhere, it’s easy to guess if someone knows you own domain.com

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Take a look here

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Banks are different, they don’t care that your email is random words. Employers may care though.

4

This right here. I use a Duck-alias for my bank, but I use an Outlook mail for work applications, etc.

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It depends. Even websites such eBay or DeepL suspend account created with SimpleLogin. What if your bank does the same?

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I have a proton address just for banking and another one just for job applications. Since unlimited allows you to have up to fifteen emails, and my account isn’t anonymized beyond a privacy card that has KYC.

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