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One benefit for me that wasn't immediately apparent is a custom email, paired with something like proton mail and simple login I turned it into a catch all.
It's fantastic. Company asks for a email, sure. Walmart@problematicpenguin.org. Now, I can sort anything that arrives to walmart@ right into the spam box. Doesn't matter what address they'd send it from.
Fucking. Brilliant.
I miss the days when you could just do johnsmith+walmart@gmail.com when signing up on a website, but now everyone either outright rejects it as invalid or parses it out.
It was useful because you could see who was selling your email address, but that exposed too many companies and was losing them $$$ so they patched it :(
See, I keep reading that. Idk for sure if it's because I use a custom domain, but no company has rejected me yet. Closest I got was a, "Is this a real email address?" "Yes" "That's so cool! How is your email mydumbcompany@problematicpenguin.com?"