I have had my credit card numbers stolen enough times in the past that I ended up getting a separate card just for my recurring and automatic payments. So when I go to the store, the gas station or anywhere else, I use a different card so if the number gets stolen I just replace that one and don't have to update all my automatic and recurring payments to a new card. Whether it is a gas station attendant, a person at the restaurant or other place of business you have to hand over your card, someone that looks at your card can easily remember the numbers and then you have fraudulent charges. I have seen someone look at my card for more than a few seconds and sure enough I had fraudulent charges the next day. Credit card skimmers on gas station pumps are also a thing, so if the pump doesnt support tap to pay then you have to put your card into the machine. My credit card company used to support virtual numbers, but now they only support them via something like google pay, which isn't exactly the same, so I have to use my actual credit card number if I wanted to order something from some random website, that doesn't support google pay, for something I might really want to purchase that I can't find anywhere else, but again I don't care because I just use the same credit card number I use when I am out purchasing somewhere.

Maybe I can get my old duck.com email address and see how much spam it still gets

For reference:
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https://it.slashdot.org/story/...

Research Enhanced Computer Technology for Advanced Linguistics problem, everyone suffers.

Apparently you can plan and verify, but when the datacenter where you have some servers are no longer accessible and you ask the company that owns the datacenter and they tell you the company that handled running the fiber in fact actually ran redundant lines along the same path instead of different paths unlike originally stated in their contract when the datacenter was being built, so all the fiber to the datacenter was cut at the same time.

My first Google branded smartphone in 2010 came with wired earbuds. I have bought a Google branded smartphone every other year since and used those same earbuds. This year I bought a Samsung phone because Google phones no longer have them, but Samsung still does; and I am still using those same 8 year old pair of earbuds.

At first glance I thought it was a scene from hackers 2.0.

Yes, see my explanation.

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I also commented below about this being old news.

I explained this one years ago here
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Obviously they don't care to undo my changes from when they bought On2/Duck.

I have been using my own registered domain with a unique email address for every company or website I use for over 16 years now. The mailserver is setup for a catch-all so I don't have to maintain individual aliases.

It is funny to see the confused look on people at the store, or hear their confusion on the phone, when they ask for your email address and you say theircompanyname@mydomainname. If they ask about it, I just say I filter emails from different companies that way, even though it is really intended for tracking who gave out my email address. I usually get responses like "Oh", but there are some that think it is cool to have your own domain and having separate email address for everything. Only a few people asked more about it in detail and I will usually go into a little bit of detail about how they would go about setting it up.

I have also had the problem a few times where somecompanyname@mydomainname started receiving spam email and I would complain to that company about giving out my email address. The response would always be that they don't give out email addresses and my response would be either you are lying about it or you have been hacked, which is it?

I also never have the problem of forgetting which email address I used for a company or worry about having to update my email address everywhere because the ISP changed their email domain or just from moving and getting a different ISP.

I like to joke about saying Trump go home so I can fly my drone, since I live within that entirety of North Jersey, and even part of surrounding states, no fly zone cloud you see on the US air map every time he comes here to golf which does seem to be a lot of weekends lately. Now if he can only help drain the NJ swamp while I suffer from No Drone Flying Syndrome.

I started working at The Duck Corporation (duck.com) in 1996, a few years before it went public as On2 Technologies/The Duck Corporation (on2.com and duck.com), and was working with Google/Duck/On2 until a year and a few months after the acquisition in 2010. At Duck/On2, I was responsibile for everything related to building our networks and maintaining all the hardware, software, servers, domains, networks and a ton of other stuff, you know the typical system administrator job.

Prior to the acquisition, but after going public as On2, we likely didn't sell duck.com because that was still my primary email address and I and a few others still actively used it, and we still kept up a basic website for information about our old and basically no longer supported software; and it was just one of those things still tied to the company with a lot of history as The Duck Corporation, so we decided to keep it. Feel free to blame me, since I always requested that we keep it when we saw the many offers for the domain over the years, mostly in the hundreds to couple of thousand dollar range; and because of my history with the company, I am sure I was a big part of that decision to not sell it.

When Google bought us, I knew I was still going to be there for a while to make sure all our company data, and some specific services that had to stay up, was migrated into their servers. Since we hosted all our own servers with our own hardware and software and they had to ulimately be shut down, I had to get things moved over and still needed to get my duck.com email.

So at that point, since I was still getting a lot of duck.com emails and had my duck.com email address for literally many hundreds of websites, publications, mailing lists, business contacts and other things, since I mainly used duck.com for well over a decade, I wanted to make sure Google's DNS and email was configured to still get duck.com emails. I actually had started trying to switch all my duck.com to google.com, but it was an overwhelming process. I still wonder how much email is still going to my duck.com email address.

I took it upon myself to learn the Google way of configuring their public DNS, email and a bunch of other things because I was nosey and wanted to learn and did learn some really cool and interesting stuff about them while I was there. I made sure the MX record for duck.com was still configured to deliver my email (and a few other email addresses) to my Google email account. Since it was decided to no longer keep the website up, I can't give you a real explanation, but I ended up configuring duck.com websites to point to the google.com main page instead of nothing. So you can go ahead and blame me, but no one at Google specifically told me to point duck.com to their site.