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by rendleflag 1462 days ago
I've done something similar for years. Every site gets a unique email address that follows a specific patters (e.g. amazon_com@example.com). Most of the sites don't sell or leak my email addresses. It has happened, but the majority of the email addresses I've generated (close to a thousand) do not get spammed. I'd say less than 1%. Most of the spam coming to my domains are to generic addresses like info@example.com or to addresses I didn't populate like william164@example.com.