You could also get a private E-Mail address that doesn’t scan all your mails to make money out of it. Google tries to enprison you in it’s ecosystem by “facilitating” logins and so on. If you don’t pay with money, you pay with your data.
Both are great alternatives for only a couple of bucks a month.
I own the domain for my last name (firstname@lastname.countrycode) and get people all the time insisting it can’t be my real email. I also own a short domain based on my last name (like last.nm) which is very useful and techy people think it’s pretty cool.
May I ask, where do you come from? I use
firstname@lastname.devdomain, and even elderly people never question it. When I bought it, I was considering.pl(my country’s TLD), because I thought that people would be suspicious of the.dev, but suprisingly they aren’t.
I made a gmail with my name like 2 years ago, I just have an uncommon name ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Yeah, I got my name when gmail was ‘invite only’ :/
It actually kinda sucks. At any given time I have between 3 and a zillion idiots around the globe who, for months or years on end, keep buying concert tickets, airline/vacation bookings, get job hits, legal firm or health-care notifications … using my email (jbloggs@gmail.com) instead of (jbloggs999@gmail.com) or whatever variant they actually signed up for, since I got ‘just my name’ and they keep. forgetting. their. own. bloody. email.
And most of the time this shit is sent from a ‘noreply@wherever.net’ so I can’t even tell them they have the wrong email address. Grrrrrrr.
I really hope that is not your real email
Joe Bloggs is the UK equivalent of Joe Shmoe, John Doe etc - a common placeholder name for the average person.
