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Keeping your real address out of other people’s databases. 9 articles.
02 AugWhy sites block disposable email, and where an alias differsThe "this email provider is not allowed" wall is a blocklist doing its job badly. Here is how a form decides your address is disposable, and the honest difference between a throwaway inbox and a masked alias.3 min31 JulMost disposable email is not private at allOn 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.2 min30 JulWhat a masked email alias actually doesAn 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.3 min27 JulPlus addressing: useful, and easier to strip than you thinkyou+shop@gmail.com is a fine way to label mail and a poor way to hide anything.2 min22 JulOne-time codes are not secret in transitA six-digit code sent by email is protected by your mailbox, and by nothing else along the way.2 min21 JulWhat actually happens when you press unsubscribeFor a legitimate sender it works and you should use it. For the other kind it is a delivery confirmation.2 min15 JulWhy your alias provider should not rewrite your mailEvery change a forwarder makes to a message is a change you have to trust, and one more way the sender’s signature can break.2 min10 JulWhat a forwarder should refuse to carryForwarding an executable to somebody’s real mailbox is not neutrality.2 min08 JulWhat a mail service should tell you it storesRetention promises are easy to write and easy to quietly not keep.2 min
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