Also, not as granular, but instead of the + suffix, add a dot in a weird place. So
n.ame@gmail.com or nam.e@gmail.com . Many SMTP servers respect periods as differentiating emails, so services can't delete them. It doesn't help you stop spam, but you can add a gmail filter that n.ame@gmail.com is put in a separate label. And it's very fast to type, easy for non tech-y people
It’s almost as trivial with this format too, at least to guess what address is used for other services, though it has a strong advantage over using ‘+’ in GMail in that nothing will try this automatically. It’s hard to believe anyone would intentionally try to guess a different service’s email to spam to it, but even so in my setup I prefer to eliminate this possibility completely by adding a random number to the service name: experian12322@example.com, and so on, with no catchall for invalid addresses.
So far the most spam I’ve gotten has been to the address I used for Amazon (probably leaked by a third‐party seller there).
I mean you can pick any format you want before the "@", but yeah my format is trivial. Nobody has tried to do it automatically yet though, as far as I can tell.
Though I had originally made this because with the "+" approach, you can easily get the original address by simply removing everything after the "+", while with mine you cannot. On top of that, sometimes "+" does not work in services that do "strict email validation".
