Giving your email address to websites
When you have to give an email address to sign up to a website*, you can avoid receiving spam from them by having a temporary email address. This will enable you to receive their verification email. A temporary email address can be obtained from 10 Minute Mail: http://bit.ly/38DDyGv
If you have a Gmail email address, then you have an infinite number of email addresses available to you without having to sign up for them. Gmail also enables you keep track of who has passed your email address on to someone else.
If needed, you can create another Gmail address as follows: If your email address is alfredddo.spongecake@gmail.com, then a.lfredddo.spongecake@gmail.com, al.fredddo.spongecake@gmail.com and alf.redddo.spongecake@gmail.com etc., also belong to you. You can then have them filtered to different inboxes.
If you want to discover if someone has passed on your email address, then you can give your email address with the name of the website added to the end of it, e.g. alfredddo.spongecake+amazon@gmail.com. You may meet up with a website that doesn't allow this.
* To get temporary access.
If you have a Gmail email address, then you have an infinite number of email addresses available to you without having to sign up for them. Gmail also enables you keep track of who has passed your email address on to someone else.
If needed, you can create another Gmail address as follows: If your email address is alfredddo.spongecake@gmail.com, then a.lfredddo.spongecake@gmail.com, al.fredddo.spongecake@gmail.com and alf.redddo.spongecake@gmail.com etc., also belong to you. You can then have them filtered to different inboxes.
If you want to discover if someone has passed on your email address, then you can give your email address with the name of the website added to the end of it, e.g. alfredddo.spongecake+amazon@gmail.com. You may meet up with a website that doesn't allow this.
* To get temporary access.
