Everyone Wants Your Email Address. Think Twice Before Sharing It

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  • Randomuser.me-Node

    Source code that powers randomuser.me

  • Currently I use Fastmail to host my own domain, and then for every new service I save the account in 1Password using [email protected]

    It's a bit extreme, but surprisingly little extra effort. That said, most of the accounts I create are throwaway.

    For phone numbers I have an old, unused Google voice number I give out. It's a real number, but never checked, except for once every 90? days, to keep it active.

    I'd love it if OnePassword integrated with something like https://randomuser.me to generate a new profile for every awful service that needs an account to work.

  • postmapweb

    Web-based tool to delegate Postfix virtual alias map management to domain owners

  • I do the same using self-hosted email, and wrote a web UI for Postfix virtual domain management to streamline this:

    https://github.com/fazalmajid/postmapweb

  • WorkOS

    The modern identity platform for B2B SaaS. The APIs are flexible and easy-to-use, supporting authentication, user identity, and complex enterprise features like SSO and SCIM provisioning.

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  • SimpleLogin

    The SimpleLogin back-end and web app (by simple-login)

  • Note that other than Mozilla’s Firefox Relay and Apple’s Hide My Email there's also SimpleLogin: https://simplelogin.io/

    Also the Bitwarden password manager has an integration for SimpleLogin.

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