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Simple but Useful Tips for Gmail, Outlook.com & Hotmail Users<\/span> In an age where personal privacy is being attacked from every direction, Gmail (yes, that\u2019s right, Gmail) offers its users a way to find out who is sharing or selling their email addresses. If you use Gmail, you should be using this trick.<\/span><\/p>\n Let\u2019s say you want to sign up for email updates from Home Depot and McDonald\u2019s (I\u2019m just sayin\u2019 now). You may want updates from Home Depot and McDonald\u2019s (maybe they\u2019re having a BOGO?), but you sure don\u2019t want Home Depot or McDonald\u2019s sharing or selling your email address, right?<\/span><\/p>\n People with large lists of email subscribers can make oodles of money by selling email addresses to others. We\u2019re not saying Home Depot will sell your info to Menard\u2019s, Lowe\u2019s, or anyone else. And we\u2019re not saying that Micky D\u2019s will sell your information or share it with Burger King or Longhorn Steakhouse (heaven forbid) or anyone else. We\u2019re just saying, OK?<\/span><\/p>\n And sometimes you don\u2019t even want to sign up for email updates, but stores ask for your email address at checkout. Let\u2019s use Ace Hardware for example (and again, we\u2019re not saying Ace Hardware is doing this \u2013 we\u2019re just sayin\u2019). Let\u2019s say you buy something at Ace Hardware and, as part of the checkout process, they ask for your email address. And you give them your Gmail address.<\/span><\/p>\n So, what\u2019s the trick?<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n OK. Let\u2019s go back to sayin\u2019. Let\u2019s say you do sign up for a Home Depot credit card or to receive email updates from Home Depot. For this tip, let\u2019s say your name is Wembly Mingler III (I\u2019m sorry) and your Gmail address is WemblyMinglerIII@gmail.com.<\/span><\/p>\n When you sign up for a Home Depot Credit Card or you sign up to receive their email alerts use WembleyMinglerIII+HomeDepot@Gmail.com. See? Lucky for us, Gmail automatically ignores any characters that follow a plus sign. So, if Home Depot is sharing your email, you\u2019ll start seeing emails from other places addressed to WemblyMinglerIII+HomeDepot@Gmail.com, and then you\u2019ll know for sure that Home Deport sold or shared your email address. Gotcha!<\/span><\/p>\n One more example\u2026. we\u2019re sorry about this Wembly.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n Let\u2019s say you sign up for updates from McDonald\u2019s \u2014 because you want to know when McDonald\u2019s is giving away Big Macs or large fries. Instead of giving them your WemblyMinglerIII@Gmail.com address, you give them WemblyMinglerIII+McDonalds@Gmail.com. Then, down the road, if you start seeing emails from Ruth\u2019s Chris or Taco Bell showing up addressed to WemblyMinglerIII+McDonalds@Gmail.com you\u2019ll know Micky D\u2019s has been selling or sharing your email address. Gotcha, Micky!<\/span><\/p>\n This trick has other uses too. Let\u2019s say you\u2019re the president of a Wembly\u2019s Chess Club. And you want a way to sort all the emails about your chess club quickly. You could create a WemblyMinglerIII+Chess@Gmail.com to easily keep track of and find all those chess-related emails with a simple search.<\/span><\/p>\n If you have an Outlook.com and\/or Hotmail.com Address, here\u2019s a tip for you\u2026<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n Do you have an Outlook.com or Hotmail.com address? You can use this tip with any Outlook.com or Hotmail address too!<\/span><\/p>\n WemblyMinglerIII+HomeDepot@Outlook.com<\/span><\/p>\n WemblyMinglerIII+McDonalds@Outlook.com<\/span><\/p>\n WemblyMinglerIII+Lowes@Hotmail.com<\/span><\/p>\n WemblyMinglerIII+Chess@Hotmail.com<\/span><\/p>\n Bonus Tip For All Email Users Did you know that email addresses are not case-sensitive?<\/span><\/p>\n WEMBLYMINGLERIII@gmail.com is the same as WemblyMinglerIII@Gmail.com and the same as WEmBlyMInGLerIII@gMAil.cOM or WEmBlyMInGLerIII@COMCAST.net or WEmBlyMInGLerIII@spectruM.com or WEmBlyMInGLerIII@hotmail.cOM or WEmBlyMInGLerIII@hotmail.com, or WEmBlyMInGLerIII@PRotONmail.me? In any case, lowercase & uppercase are meaningless when it comes to email addresses and website URLs.<\/span><\/p>\n Try it and see! htTps:\/\/wWw.THUNDERclouD.net\/STaRt\/<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Simple but Useful Tips for Gmail, Outlook.com & Hotmail Users In an age where personal privacy is being attacked from every direction, Gmail (yes, that\u2019s right, Gmail) offers its users a way to find out who is sharing or selling their email addresses. If you use Gmail, you should be using this trick. 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