Good time for a reminder that password managers are super-helpful here. I use Vaultwarden (self-hosted fork of Bitwarden), and the app and browser extension have a built-in password generator that also generates passphrases. Easy to create something strong and immediately save it to my vault, as well as keep it unique to the site.
Also, for sites that allow it, highly recommend using PLUS addressing when providing an email…so instead of “mynormalemail@mydomainDOTcom” you would use “mynormalemail+somethingrelatedtothesite@mydomainDOTcom”. In terms of delivering the email to your inbox, none of what follows the “+” sign is processed, but it makes it easy to know who is sending you email (or selling your address) without creating separate aliases. And if someone does start spamming you, you can use the PLUS address to create a rule nuking those emails.
I second bitwarden (but I use their service, not vaultwarden).
Duckduckgo has a mobile browser that can fill in the email for you with a randomly generated one tied to your email, or just mynormalemail@duck.com, which will remove the tracking bits and the read receipts from mail they forward to you.
Ddg also has a nice vpn like service that blocks traffic from apps on my phone to trackers and ads. The ads I get now are much less annoying. It doesn’t work everywhere. But it does play nice with android auto, unlike other ad blockers I’ve tried.
I’m a big fan of local control (hence my interest in setting up a NAS, as well as my use of both Home Assistant and Vaultwarden), so I’ve got a bunch of block lists set up on my FreshTomato flashed router, along with VPN, and my and my family’s i-devices are configured with shortcuts that automatically flip on the VPN when we leave the home wifi, so the block lists continue to work while we’re out and about.
Main reason for wanting to set up a NAS is to increase storage and redundancy. Current setup relies on Proxmox on a SFF desktop with limited space for drives. 2x SSD (m.2 and 2.5") mean it’s really fast, but no protection at all from drive failure.
New box with more drives would allow running Proxmox with a ZFS setup, or possibly TrueNAS or OpenMediaVault with software RAID.