Concerned if the site is seized my regular email be exposed. Thanks
Aliasing and forwarding is not a good solution if you are concerned about law enforcement, because your personal e-mail is still linked with the tracker, just behind an extra hop and in addition you allow someone in between to read your e-mails. You had the answer yourself. Create a completely fresh free e-mail account somewhere, using as minimum a private tab to prevent tracking data to link anything to the account… and if you can get a free e-mail account with IMAP/POP access so that you can use it in an e-mail client to leak less data, do that.
Icreated a new email on proton for tracker and piracy stuff. No need to have it associated with my regular email/persona
If you’re in the States, maybe take a peek at Firefox Relay.
Other countries are available:
Free Relay is available in most countries. Relay Premium is available in Austria, Bulgaria, Belgium, Canada, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malaysia, Malta, Netherlands, New Zealand, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Singapore, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, United Kingdom, and the United States.
And to think, I just got downvoted to fuck the other day because someone claimed wasn’t available in the UK. lol
Thank you for clearing that up.
People on the internet downvoting without fact checking first - business as usual then!
I create a new email for each new sign up so I immediately know who leaked it. If spam is coming I can close it
At that point, just get a custom domain with a catch-all email system. Any emails sent to the @[domain] address will hit your inbox, so you can do things like Target@[domain] and Walmart@[domain]. Then if you start getting spam from one of those, you know who leaked it and you can filter them into spam. All without needing to go through the hassle of creating a new email address.
Hell, my password generator (Bitwarden) even has the option to create custom usernames for a catch-all system. It can either do them randomly (like the passwords) or pull them from whatever site I’m making the account on. So like it’ll pull the site’s title and use that as the e-mail address, then append the @[domain] to the end automatically.
This is exactly what I need to do. I have a custom domain attached to Protonmail. I’ve been using duck duck go for aliases with Bitwarden but this solution sounds perfect. I always wondered what that catch all option meant.
Check out the Privacy Guides page on Email Aliasing Services
You can go with an email proxy service, to name a few
- Firefox Relay
- SimpleLogin
- Addy (Previously AnonAddy)
Which one do you suggest?
I’ve been using SimpleLogin for over a year and it’s been great. I also pay for Proton Mail, so I get SimpleLogin Premium for free.
SimpleLogin allows you to create private email aliases, all emails sent to an alias will be forwarded to your real email address. I’ve been using this for over a year and it’s been great. If you pay for Proton Mail, you also get SimpleLogin Premium for free.
