Simple. Just don’t read your email. 99% of the email I get is junk, and is it really gonna kill me if I ignore the other 1%?
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It might be too late for OP to implement this, but I got this advise years ago and it works wonders: I use my own domain with a wildcard email inbox.
So when a company asks for my email address, I respond with companyname@mydomain.tld.
If ever I receive spam on companyname@mydomain.tld I just black hole that email address, and know never to trust that company again.
You can also somewhat do this with other providers in some cases.
For example, Gmail has the +Alias feature where you can use a plus symbol on your existing username to make things unique. If you go to a website and use myusername+somecompany@gmail.com those messages will still go to your same inbox. You can then use rules to handle them differently. The only problem is that some signup systems won't accept a + in an e-mail address.
Technically you can also do this with periods as well with Gmail, since:
Are all the same and go to one mailbox too. So you can use a particular variation with periods for "spam" signups, then filter those messages out.
I knew about the periods thing, but not the + thing, that's very useful - will definitely try to start doing that, thanks for the info 👍
Check if it's not important, then delete
I use SimpleLogin (owned by or partnered with Protonmail) to create a unique alias email for any service I sign up with. If one of those services starts spamming, I pause that alias. I also don't give out the email address I use to login to Proton.
I know proton has a lot of issues as a company, but simple login is really nice. I thought they were just partnered, but maybe they own them
Yeah, I'm not sure of the relationship. I do know that SimpleLogin is maintained by SL, not Proton. I think SL developed Pass which is why it works so well.
Block it.