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Advice for Helping Older Person with Spam (midwest.social)
submitted 2 years ago by to c/privacy@lemmy.ml
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I'm helping my older neighbor deal with tons of spam email that she's getting. For dealing with spam I thought about using thunderbird with with some extensions and making comprehensive filters. To reduce the volume in the future I thought about using deleteme and simplelogin so that her information doesn't continue to be spread.

Anyone have thoughts on the approach or maybe improvements that could be better?

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[–] 2 points 2 years ago

So the complete answer:

  1. Dont subscribe to spam
  2. Use aliases for everything. Dont use an alias for "free discount news letter" etc. that you use for normal stuff
  3. Delete spam aliases often and get new ones
  4. Manually unsubscribe from stuff
  5. Turn off email notifications in some web services that are unnecessary spam
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