• webghost0101@sopuli.xyz
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    11 months ago

    Here is how you can avoid it without clicking that link

    Get an alias email or secondary email. Better yet a few.

    Set them up so any important mails like people you know irl are forwarded to your proper email adress.

    Never share your proper personal adress, not even with family. (Seriously they will enter it on we transfer to send you files or sm else and your spamfree days are over.

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      11 months ago

      If you’re gonna go through all that trouble why not just keep a single real email address, and filter your important mails to a folder.

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      11 months ago

      imo At this point it’s this is no better than just using the same address for everything. The entire point is to be careful about sharing your email address because company is can use it to track you and see what you’re looking at but if you’re just going to use everything under the same email anyway then the tracking still exists you just don’t see the spam for it

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      11 months ago

      So you got a “primary Email” that has no spam but no Mails either because no one knows of it’s existence? You could just do the very same with one mail address and a few filtering rules, you know? Besides: the best way around this are randomly generated Mails you use for one service only like duckduckgo.or Firefox relay will give you

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        11 months ago

        If you want to email me, you can tell my private secretary, who will write down your message and send it to my personal email address.

        He also doesn’t know my personal email address, but we have a cryptographic system where he, a trusted anonymous randomly-chosen person (rotated weekly) and the president of Albania can all input their credentials and have the email sent to a proxy email which will forward to my personal address.


        In unrelated news, why do I always miss my doctor’s appointments?

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    11 months ago

    Substack is the worst with this. I get 2 paragraphs into the article and obscured the text to prompt for my email. Like shit, I don’t know if I want to subscribe yet, I haven’t read the fucking article. Maybe if it is good I’ll subscribe, don’t try to trick me into it. I’ll happily consider your subscript prompt after I have read the article and have an opinion on if I want to subscribe.

    Now I just leave the page whenever I see that prompt and I’ve configured my browser to flag all substack links so that I don’t waste my time clicking them. (Unfortunately it doesn’t work for custom domains).

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    11 months ago

    There are browsers’ built in solution and plugins like relay in firefox/ to not give your email address to anyone and to easily block spam and see who sold your email to whom.

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      11 months ago

      Are you sure you are not thinking about New York Post?
      New York times used to be a very respected paper, and still is AFAIK, except among MAGA republicans, because they dared criticize Trump.

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        Nope, and I know what you’re saying, but I personally consider the times to be garbage as a source or any journal for that matter as long as they charge a subscription fee. The simple reason is that if you’re going to share it with anyone, they can’t see it because of the fucking pay wall, that greatly diminishes its value to me

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    11 months ago

    Why get worried about e-mail when you can use Bypass Paywall Clean extension in Firefox?

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      I use the reader view built into Firefox, or I use ublock to remove the elements covering the text if it doesn’t work.