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Fastmail has a "masked email" feature, which will forward emails sent to (potentially temporary) email addresses to your regular email account. So will SpamGou
by pmoriarty 5y ago
Fastmail has a "masked email" feature, which will forward emails sent to (potentially temporary) email addresses to your regular email account.
So will SpamGourmet[2].
Of course the problem with all these services is that you're giving yet another third party access to your communication and giving up your privacy to them.
They are all, as far as I know, completely unaccountable regarding what they do with the information they get from your private communication.
No matter what they say in their privacy policies, press releases, or PR, there's no way (as far as I know) to reliably verify any of their claims.
That said, I'd still rather deal with a company which at least claims to respect privacy rather than one that (like Facebook or Google) either spit on it or make money off tracking me and datamining everything they can about me.
[1] - https://www.fastmail.help/hc/en-us/articles/4406536368911 https://www.fastmail.help/hc/en-us/articles/4406536368911
[2] - https://www.spamgourmet.com/ https://www.spamgourmet.com/
- prox 5y agoAs long as you use it for potentially spammy website account, you can minimize your footprint. Don’t use it to mail friends or co workers for example. Use multiple services so no one service knows the whole picture.
- theshrike79 5y agoThere is the fact that, at least in Fastmail's case, you're paying for the service so someone would need to pay a LOT for the data for it to be worth it to the company to risk losing paid customers.
- kyleee 5y agounfortunately this is also a signal of a juicier target for monetization, not that fastmail is doing shady things like that, but that's what less scrupulous companies see
- gnud 5y agoFastmail handles my email anyway. So there's no extra risk in having them manage som extra email aliases.
- kevin_thibedeau 5y agoData mining was in the original Gmail TOS.
- juriansluiman 5y agoThe biggest missing feature on Masked Email by Fastmail is they don't remove trackers, as far as I know. Masked Email gives you more privacy (the identity behind the receiver is unknown) and with data breaches, there's is no login data leaked. Duck's Email Protection does also remove trackers from the forwarded mails. So senders can't trace back whether you have opened the mail. I hope they also remove click trackers, but I am unsure how they would implement that technology with the referral codes in the URL.
- czottmann 5y agoFastmail proxies all images (when using their webmail interface), and AFAIK remove tracking images. https://fastmail.blog/privacy-security/fastmail-keeps-you-safe-from-spy-pixels/ https://fastmail.blog/privacy-security/fastmail-keeps-you-sa...
- andreareina 5y agoReads are still tracked by virtue of the fact that the image was requested. Proxies do obscure the requester's IP address, but not much else.
- 0xCMP 5y agothey also typically obscure when it was read. Google at least pulls the image right away iiuc. If not then it really should. most they should know is it was delivered. which is significantly better than nothing.
- potas 5y agoIn Fastmail you can choose to only display images for emails that are in your contacts. Proxy is just another layer of protection for when you actually want to see the images.