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by JGM_io 2176 days ago
Very cool trick! Wonder if Europe has this as well.

For email I use <site>JGM.io (my own domain). If I see that address being used elsewhere I know who's being a bad boy

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Gmail let's you add tags to your email like firstnamelastname+linkedin@gmail.com. This is really useful for such purposes.
That is true, but is also blocked by many sites. No such thing can happen to a custom domain.
Do you have an example of a site that blocks this? I don’t use gmail anymore but used this trick for many years and wasn’t blocked once.
I would have thought most everybody serious about exploiting your data would be rewriting this type of email at this point.