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Thanks for your suggestion, but I am not sure how to implement this in practice? How do you generate different email addresses for different websites for a typi
by j7ake 9y ago
Thanks for your suggestion, but I am not sure how to implement this in practice? How do you generate different email addresses for different websites for a typical user who uses gmail?
- edp 9y agoFor some websites, you can put a "+" sign and whatever you want after your gmail username. For example: username+dropbox@gmail.com, and you will receive mails at username@gmail.com. Unfortunelately, this doesn't work with websites that have aggressive regexp checking on email fields.
- cm2187 9y agoPlus it leaks your underlying email address so it offers very limited protection. Also you can't delete the alias to stop any future spam/phishing.
- Too 9y agoI think with gmail it's possible to filter based on which alias it was sent to.
- j7ake 9y agoI don't see the benefit of using name+alias@gmail.com if the point is to obscure your email address
- edp 9y agoIf you don't want bots to try email+password from a leak on a bunch of websites, it's good enough, but I agree on the fact that it won't hide your identity.
- zeristor 9y agoNot everyone realises that'+' is a valid character in an email address, at least not when I tried this several years ago.
- cm2187 9y agoI run my own domain and the mail server I use does that for me (smartermail). If you don't control your domain there must be third party services. I googled "free email alias", most results seem to be for temporary aliases, but there must be a service for permanent aliases. It's something major providers like gmail should provide.
- homero 9y agoI use 33mail
- jdright 9y agohttps://anyalias.com/ https://anyalias.com/