I’m trying to de-Google, and that means finally getting off of Gmail. I need a new email address for shopping/corporate spam. Where should I park all the emails I get about coupons, shipping updates, new product features, policy changes, etc.?
Considerations:
-I don’t want to just give all my shopping data to another big AI company. (So, not Outlook/Microslop.) I don’t want a provider that will sell my data to third parties, either. These emails don’t need top-level privacy protection, but random third parties don’t need to know whether I buy cheap or expensive shoes.
-I’d like to use email aliases for different companies so I can figure out who’s the leak if I start getting emails from an unexpected source. (Although maybe that can be a separate service from the email provider?)
-I don’t care what country the email provider is based in. I don’t care if the CIA can theoretically find out what shoes I buy, I just don’t want businesses giving me higher “personalized” prices because of those shoes.
-I’d prefer to stick with a free email provider if possible, but maybe that’s not compatible with the first point, IDK.
Suggestions, please!
In a weird way the most private email for shopping/spam you can have is gmail/icloud/outlook, since signing up to websites with any obscure email is instantly going to make you stand out. Use some alternative frontend like thunderbird and the only data google will have on you is the services you signed up for, which google will have anyway since any shopping site is using google tracking in some way or another. Use your actual email (mailbox, posteo, etc) for real contact and google for looking like a “normie” to already privacy invasive sites