I need a throwaway email address for the increasing number of sites that require one and then spam me with 10 emails a day. (I’m talking about YOU, Opendoor.com). I used to be able to just send them to spam but that no longer works everywhere.
What’s a good choice? Hotmail is now Outlook and part of Microsoft. Gmail is Google and they have been pretty evil lately. Maybe AOL?
Suggestions?
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I use a yahoo email account for those sorts of places where I need to give them a real email address, but I don’t want to read any of their emails. Even in that, I keep the volume pretty well-controlled through a combination of unsubscribing and labeling as spam.
With my AOL account, I am allowed, I think, 5 different email addresses. One is my basic email, one is for family, and one I give to those sites that want to send me junk mail.
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Posts: 13814 | Location: The outer burrows | Registered: 27 April 2005
I've had a couple of hotmail addresses forever. One is for junk and the other is not. About twice a month I scroll through the junk one just to make sure nothing is from an old friend that might have that address in their records.
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Posts: 7556 | Location: chicagoland | Registered: 21 April 2005
I have a Yahoo email for junk as well. I don't know it's status, since I never go in there. Everything about it is fake. Fake name, fake phone number, you name it.
As Elaine would say, "Fake, fake, fake."
Posts: 35378 | Location: West: North and South! | Registered: 20 April 2005
If it's a throwaway, who cares? I have made dozens of throwaways on Gmail, Hotmail, and Yahoo. Since you're never going to check them, go with whoever you want to inconvenience most.
