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submitted 8 months ago by xia@lemmy.sdf.org to c/memes@lemmy.ml
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[-] friendly_ghost@beehaw.org 46 points 8 months ago

Types in email address:

"Unsubscribe'); DROP TABLE @ Email;--"

[-] Kidplayer_666@lemm.ee 18 points 8 months ago

“Bobby Tables we like to call him”

[-] halcyoncmdr@lemmy.world 37 points 8 months ago

Marked as Spam, I'll never see it again, and if enough people do they'll get the entire email service blocked by your email provider since they're actively hosting spam. And there's not much more annoying and difficult than trying to remove a legitimate service from spam lists because some users abused it.

[-] slowbyrne@lemm.ee 23 points 8 months ago

Here's how I solved email spam.

  1. Create a new email on a privacy focused platform (I chose proton)
  2. Sign up for an email relay service (Firefox relay, SimpleLogin, etc...)
  3. Only give out your actual email to friends and family and tell them not to share it with others or services without your permission.
  4. Change your email on ALL your services to a newly generated relay addresses. Only use relay addresses for any online service moving forward.
  5. Monitor the old email for a while to find any important services you might have missed.
  6. When you get spam from a relay address, you can decide to use the normal unsubscribe option, or the nuclear disable relay option. That's it.

Bonus 01: since your changing all your services manually, you can decide to delete accounts you don't need anymore.

Bonus 02: each relay is unique to the service so you can tell when a service either got hacked or sold your info.

Side Note: there are setups similar to this for credit cards. I use Wise.com for online transactions with 3 different "virtual" cards that I can destroy if they get exposed.

[-] sunbytes@lemmy.world 16 points 8 months ago

Thing is, any friends and family that click "accept" when an app asked for permission to see their address book will have accidentally released the "good" email.

I wonder whether there shouldn't just be "an email I can read out to people on the phone" and the rest are all random privacy/hash ones.

[-] xia@lemmy.sdf.org 7 points 8 months ago

Email is fundamentally broken, we need to start over.

[-] slowbyrne@lemm.ee 6 points 8 months ago

You could always give out a relay to your family and friends as well. Both Firefox relay and SimpleLogin have custom domains so you can give you mom an email address like mom@myname.simplelogin.com

[-] sunbytes@lemmy.world 2 points 8 months ago

Oh that's what I was looking for. Nice.

[-] 200ok@lemmy.world 14 points 8 months ago
[-] ArtVandelay@lemmy.world 5 points 8 months ago

?utm stands for "U the man" right?

[-] lugal@sopuli.xyz 2 points 8 months ago

Don't! It's a trap!

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