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i use a different address for almost every destination, all aliasing from a main domain. in this way i can track who sells my info.

I have multiple domains and backup addresses on ProtonMail, so technically I have infinite addresses :P

I split mails domains at the identity level, and addresses (under my custom domains, for proton I use their simplelogin integration) are split between services, even though I use my main one in most places still.

Three:

1. Professional: [email protected]
2. Register for bullshit e-mail: [email protected]
3. The 16 year old me e-mail with a 69 in it that i still inexplicably use occassionally.

I only have one email address from ProtonMail but I make extensive use of their "Additional Addresses" feature and I use ProtonPass email aliases. There are only a few sites which know my real email address (around 15 I think).

Edit: technically I also have a Gmail address but I'm trying to get rid of that since it has my deadname in it.

Two.

One "official" with my name attached to it and one "trash" for places I don't want to give any real data to.

3 real adresses: personal, professional, school assigned. Countless aliasses

I use two actively but technically I have a gmail adress but only use it to log in to YouTube with it. If you sent me an email there I will probably never see it.

3 mailboxes

• Work
• Personal (general use)
• Personal (Important personal stuff)

That last email is for things I don’t want to risk reading in public. It’s the one I give to my doctor, financial advisor, insurance, tax authority, etc.

I have a wildcard rule set up to catch things sent to addresses on my domain that I don’t have explicitly configured… so technically, I have infinite email addresses.

I counted 11 across 3 different providers.

1 in Aol mail
3 in Google Mail
7 in InstAddr

I have one paid email address that’s my main that I purchased from an overseas provider, just to complicate spying and reduce perverse motivations to use my data to profit.

I have a secondary older email address, a professional work email address, and then a long tail of anti-spam aliases.

I have a "professional" email with my real name and one with my "online" name. They used to both be on gmail but now they are on Protonmail.

I also have some domain names I own which I can set up with Protonmail as the provider... Kinda tempted to move everything over to my domain so that I can switch providers if I need to without having to update things.

too many

Work, gmail with a regrettable name i picked in my teens and can't be bothered to migrate away from. Other gmail that I only have on my phone. Work mail, personal mai with firstname@uniquesurname

About 160

One real (actively used) email address on Proton Mail, 300 aliases on SimpleLogin and addy.io

I use about 200 junkmail addresses when I am testing online services with registration.

• One private
• One professional-private (which is an alias to my private one)
• One work email

I had 2 main ones, but they also got emails from one of my old accounts, for technically 3. But I just moved to Proton mail, so now I'm trying to stick with one + aliases. I'm hoping to keep it this way 😤

I made a bunch of burner Google accounts back when it was easy to do so so I have many addresses from there + a couple in protonmail. In total it should be 2 "serious" addresses, 1 for games and non-serious services, 2-3 for some specialized stuff and about 8(?) dummy accounts, some of which have connected accounts to social media which have been locked.

Dozens, but they all converge into 2 mailboxes. It's nice to keep things separate, but it does get confusing sometimes. If I didn't have a password manager to remember my logins, it would be untenable.

For stuff I'm going to use long terms i use my lifetime university email address which forwards to me main fastmail address. I have several fastmail addresses for dev stuff, bacon (not quite spam), one for patreon and kickstarter, and so on. Those all go to one mailbox.

My old gmail account is just for spam, google's account spam, and (I only recently noticed) github. I check that mailbox like 3 times a year.

Also all my domains have at least an info address that forwards to my dev fastmail address, and we have a household group address that forwards to my fastmail as well.

I daily use 4, plus some temporary

I create unique email addresses for every organisation and service I deal with, including an obfuscated date, so when an address is compromised I can nuke it with a hard rejection, and regenerate as needed. This all feeds into a catchall mailbox, with server-side sieve rules to filter the stuff I actually care about.

I besides some account specific and burnt addresses, I don’t actively track of any of the addresses I’ve created, it would be in the hundreds by now.

One benefit of this crazy setup is there’s one less common identifier to match across disparate data stores.

Finally, no one should do any of The above. From experience I consider it pathological.

One per site.

Mostly six: family and friends, romantic relationships, professional, online identity, signing to Google services*, signing to other services.

I say "mostly" because I went through dozens of addresses, already abandoned. And the "signing to other services" e-mail has disposable addresses, that I use fairly often.

*I use this as a way to limit what Alphabet knows about me, given that it's the biggest data vulture that I can't get rid of.

10 that I know of.