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I like to use the scientific names of common things, like vegetables.

Simplelogin. I have like 500 email addresses, all single use

It was the coolest name from the random generator

It's my cringe weeb account from when I was, like 10. I'm talking "NekoOniBakaChan_xx@wtf.com" levels of cringe.

10 minute mail for anything I don't want to sign in to ever again.

Otherwise I have a gmail I made for the purpose, the address is some generic words and numbers that don't look like a complete spam (in case I need to send an email and hope to get a response).

i own a domain, and have a catchall account which forwards to a single address.

any time i sign up for a service, i use their business name as the prefix.

for example : i decide to go shop at a store called Mold Gravy, and the clerk tells me i can save 15% on today’s purchase by giving them my email address. i tell them it’s moldgravy@mydomain.com.

this keeps my actual main email account from getting polluted, and also if i notice an increase in spam, i can see which company either sold my fake email address, or were compromised, and the i can simply block it.

it costs $10/yr for a domain name, and another $5/month for hosting. well worth it.

ETA : there’s a lot of really great suggestions here, not only in response to me, but also in this whole thread!

My what now?

It's my final yahoo email. Used it as a kid so obviously it's already full of spam, now I just use it for even more spam

I use my main account for that. I just unsubscribe from all news letters immediately so I don't generally get any spam.

If I need a burner email I can generate a temporary one on Tempmail

Other than that - my account for "less important stuff" is just one of my old ones. ;)

Proton. They have a mail aliases feature where you can create temporary email addresses which forward to your account. Then, if you start getting junk you didn't ask for, or have trouble unsubscribing, you just delete the alias.

Its my old gmail account.

It’s my Hotmail account

It's the main email that I have been using for almost 20 years. Now it is my junk email.

My email comes with masked email options, so if I need an email I just hit create and it generates one that forwards to/from my account. Just as easy to block or delete them.

My junk mail address is the name people hear when I say my actual name. So I guess it's the more common, phonetically similar name to mine.

Duck duck go has generative email addresses. Seem to work pretty well.

I often use proton for junk mails as it does not require phone or something and a lot of services accept it compared to the normal trash mail services.

Another thing i do is searching for the sender of annoying mails, mark like 10 of them and mark them as spam, then the next ones get dumped too

Anything that needs an unconfirmed signup, I've always used Don B. Sonozi - godfather@mafia.org

I figure that one day a spammer will learn regret.

Buy a cheap xyz domain. Use catchall address.

I use Port87, so my junk email is just part of my real email, which is my name.

A couple words from a dream I'd had that burrowed deep into my brain for a short time. I figured it was unique enough, I could get the original and not have to add number at the end.

It's one word off from an Alice in Wonderland quote

Just made up a fake name