I’m in the process of deGoogling and also shoring up my email privacy, which means I’m hyper aware of mistakes I make, hence the stupid question:

I was testing something with Proton Mail and misspelled the domain—swapped the “r” with one of the neighboring letters.

I didn’t get an email bounceback, which is fine, because you don’t always get a bounceback anyway. But, should I be concerned that I might have just volunteered my email directly to some spam outfit?

The “wrong” domain is registered. I’m acutely aware that the misspelling being one letter away from “Proton” might be intentional to capture misspellings like the one I made. Also, the wrong domain seems to be associated with oopatet.com and trellian.com, which are blocked by ublock.

Is there anything I should do from a privacy perspective?
Or is this a non-issue?

    • reflex@kbin.socialOP
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      1 year ago

      letting the intended recipient know might be appreciated at least.

      Recipient is me, so no issue there!

      How much of a problem that is depends on how much you and the intended recipient care about random companies knowing your names and email addresses.

      I suppose I do care—that’s why I’m setting all this stuff up to begin with. But I suppose @KingSlareXIV brings up a good point in that my address might be scraped sooner or later anyway.