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Elaborate?

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With Gmail you can add a plus to the end of your email address followed by a label I.E. example+label@gmail.com. This works the same as your regular email but you can use the plus label to filter or automatically delete mails. It’s also useful when you don’t trust a company to add the company name after the plus to see of they sell your email to third parties.

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it is good to know, that these labels are totally unknown to those email address dealers/buyers, so that they cannot just automatically remove all +* local parts for those rare google domain emails no one knows about !!

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Oo! Cool feature! I’ll have to start using that.

Google killing that feature in 3,2,1….

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If you give your email as you+amazon@email.com then it will still receive it at you@email.com but now you know who sold it if you start getting spam sent to it.

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Other way around, everything after the ‘+’ is effectively ignored.

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Oh, that way round then. I’ll correct it in case people don’t read this far.

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