The case for unique email addresses (2020)
I did similar things for many years, but at the end of the day I found that I was just adding friction for myself and not getting any real benefit. Yeah, I can see who has sold (or inadvertently leaked) my information, but then what? Don&#x27;t do business with them again? Fine, but it&#x27;s too late. And so many companies have problems like this that if you refuse to do business with any of them, you&#x27;re going to find yourself very limited.<p>In a broader sense, as I learned to grow out of my 1990s-era rage about spam, I&#x27;ve found that my online life has gotten a lot less stressful. No, I still do not like commercial email in my inbox. But constantly being angry about it and trying to fight it did not result in me getting any less of it. All it did was made me a bitter person. Something something accept the things I cannot change...