That’s a use case for aliases, catching if any company or service gives out your email to be abused by advertisers and whatnot. I tried looking for stories but didn’t find any, I wonder if you have any to share.

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    Yes. One from Palmetto State Armory (sold to Norton LifeLock) and also Outside Inc. (BikeReg, Trailforks) sold my info to many many companies.

    Some others such as GoDaddy email me relentlessly from a dozen different emails and even switched to different domains (godaddy2.com, e.godaddy.com, etc) after I blocked them before domain expiry of domains I’ve already moved off their service. Fortunately I used an alias and eventually just disabled the address.