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My email is firstname.lastname@protonmail.com so it's not exactly anonymous.
Edit: My real email obviously has my actual name on it.
That seems about as anonymous as they come.
Naturally I don't include my real name in the example.
You aren’t filling me Mr. last name
You're gonna make him pull out? Lame.
That's funny, I have firstnamelastname@protonmail.com
So it's your fault they had to add a period between firstname and lastname!
Now it's a race to get a good number like firstnamelastname69 or 112358.
The period is optional. Not using it or placing a period somewhere else and it still works. Also a +whatever before the @ works too. Easy to see who sold your data. Firstnamelastname+facebook@proton.me and every spam you get with the +facebook in the address is from data Facebook sold.
Edit: yeah, whatever happens, it is always my fault. Remember that.
That's just an example. My real email has my actual name on it.
Yeah mine too, but am not going to put my full name here. The joke was mine is almost the same, but we have different names (I guess) so they are completely different. But now I want firstnamelastname@protonmail.com. By the way, did you know your email works without the dot too? Or when you add multiple dots? You can also add +sitename before the @ so you can see who sold your data. So, first.name.last.n.a.m.e+lemmy@protonmail.com works just as well as firstname.lastname@protonmail.com and firstnamelastname+lemmy@proton.me
Edit: firstnamelastname@proton is already in use :'(
I was forced to do lastname.firstname since apparently my name is super common and every other variation was taken already with all of protonmail.com, pm.me, proton.me, etc.