- Joined
- Thursday September 26, 2013
- Location
- Halifax, Republic of Yorkshire
Got a GMail account? Try this ...
Next time you sign up to something, say, a forum or a mailing list where you use your GMail account, use the + sign and add a descriptor for the service.
Eh? So, if your GMail address is user123@gmail.com then sign up as user123+spuriousmailinglist@gmail.com
Really? Yep! That's it! It will still come to your user123@gmail.com address and be there in your inbox. But, if you start getting junk to that address then you know exactly who sold your data.
Next time you sign up to something, say, a forum or a mailing list where you use your GMail account, use the + sign and add a descriptor for the service.
Eh? So, if your GMail address is user123@gmail.com then sign up as user123+spuriousmailinglist@gmail.com
Really? Yep! That's it! It will still come to your user123@gmail.com address and be there in your inbox. But, if you start getting junk to that address then you know exactly who sold your data.