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myaddress+shop@gmail.comshould be trivial to defeat by a spammer. Its a very simple string remove/replace to get back to a stock email address, or change it to impersonate another service, eg.myaddress+netflix@gmail.com.It's only useful for the actual service, after that, you can't rely on it.
Also most adversaries are using VPN's
Some email services like iCloud offer scrambled permanent emails to use on different services though, that's pretty cool.