Privacy
Keeping your real address out of other people’s databases. 8 articles.
Most disposable email is not private at all
On many throwaway-mail sites, anyone who types your address can read your inbox. That is not a bug in those products, it is how they are built.
4 min read →What a masked email alias actually does
An alias is not a second mailbox. It is a valve on your real one, and understanding the difference tells you when it helps and when it does not.
5 min read →Plus addressing: useful, and easier to strip than you think
you+shop@gmail.com is a fine way to label mail and a poor way to hide anything.
4 min read →One-time codes are not secret in transit
A six-digit code sent by email is protected by your mailbox, and by nothing else along the way.
4 min read →What actually happens when you press unsubscribe
For a legitimate sender it works and you should use it. For the other kind it is a delivery confirmation.
4 min read →Why your alias provider should not rewrite your mail
Every change a forwarder makes to a message is a change you have to trust, and one more way the sender’s signature can break.
4 min read →What a forwarder should refuse to carry
Forwarding an executable to somebody’s real mailbox is not neutrality.
4 min read →What a mail service should tell you it stores
Retention promises are easy to write and easy to quietly not keep.
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