Yes, You Need a Disposable Email Address! - Comments Page 1
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I agree with Bob that disposable addresses are a must for many, if not all folk. I don't find Yahoo disposable addresses difficult to use at all, and unlike G-Mail your base name is something you choose and need have no similarity to your real address. You give basename-whatever@yahoo.com and set the disposable up in your account. You can close it down whenever you want or need to. And can actually restart it too if you want. The only thing that is permanent is the base name portion of the disposable address. As an aside, I have NEVER, EVER used my "real" address, yet a few years ago I started to receive spam on it. Not possible they said at the phone company, who use the Yahoo mail system to provide our email. I now realize it was likely because of the hacks at Yahoo ... maybe companies need to listen to customers who tell them something is happening, even though it is thought to be "impossible". |
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I use SpamGourmet, you do need to register then you create temporary addresses that you can limit to the number of emails that get forwarded before the system starts trashing them. Basically how it works is that you create an account, don't use your real name, e.g. user123 on the site. You can then create a list of words to use and set the options to limit to list but this is optional.e.g. raven Now you can create addresses of the form raven.5.user123@spamgourmet.com and the originator can send 5 emails, in this example which are forwarded to your real email before eating anything else. The system also allows replies to route via spamgourmet and many other features. The site is really ugly but it does work. |
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Hey, Bob! GMail also has other options. Gmail is 'dot-blind' and will ignore any dot in your email address before @ sign. "whatever+ChaseBank@gmail.com" can be "what.ever+ChaseBank@gmail.com" |
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I'll second spamgourmet.com. the interface is probably back from 1980's but I use it nearly every day. Once you start using it you'll see how it can cut back back dramatically on sites selling your email info...because the spam will get eaten by this service. :) |
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I like the Bloody Vikings! Firefox addon. It gives you several choices of throwaway emails. I wouldn't use it for banking, but those other sites which want your email for spam are easily defeated. |
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It seems to me that Sneakemail is behind the times. Not only you need to go to the site to create an alias every time you need one, but you also need to specify your redirection address each and every time you create an alias ! (At least if the tutorial is to be believed.) Most people will only need one redirection address, and it will always be the same. Also, it's expensive, at 20 $ with no free plan. For 30 $ per year, you can buy a full mail service from the reputable Australian provider Fast Mail, which will include 600 aliases to use as disposable email addresses (and you'll avoid all Google-related spying). Fast Mail basic plan used to cost only 10$/year a while ago... In this day and age, I wouldn't use one of those services where your mail is available for everyone to see. While this might have been acceptable several years ago, the threat level from hackers has gone up several notches. |
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You missed out on the bast one : e4ward at http://www.e4ward.com/ |
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The + sign isn't accepted at any site I have tried it on and hasn't been for years now. Gmail's spam filter is pretty darn good and I almost never get any. Can't remember when the last time was. They do get a few false positives, but even those are advertising from sites I registered on 99%+ of the time. |
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Let us not be too smitten with such tricks like “plus addressing” with gMail (etc.) |
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Yahoo allows you to create temporary e mail addresses. If I get too much spam on that address, I delete it, and make another disposable address. It works for me well. |
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I'm surprised you didn't mention the great-grand-daddy of them all - Spamgourmet. I've been using this facility for years. Very useful |
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I use disposable mail for various sites. The problem I an starting to see is many sites are on to the disposable mail and no longer accept disposable addresses. Seems to be a cat and mouse game to keep up. Now another option if you own your own domain is create and delete address or alias as needed. I typically would create an address like "starbucks@domain.com" if signing up with Starbucks. This way you see who is selling your e-mail address. |
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My favorite is Blur (https://www.abine.com) because it's free and it integrates into my browser (Firefox) and also works with Android and iOS phones. So when I come across a website that has an email field, it pops up my registered email and a new masked email so I can choose which I want to use. It also can mask credit cards and phone numbers, can eliminate web tracking, and auto-fill many fields like other password managers. Some of the functions are not free, but the ones I use (masking email addresses and eliminating web tracking) are free. |
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I ave an email address associated with the ISP I use, and am VERY selective in who I provide my email address to. |
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I've thought about trying to use a disposable email address and being able to identify to which entity you gave any particular email addie would definitely help pin down which one sold or gave away your details. But other than deleting that addie, thereby dropping your membership to that website, there seems no other benefit in going to all that trouble? So I came to the conclusion that it probably wasn't worth all the bother to try and create a disposable addie that each target website would accept, when marking emails as spam and getting them automatically bounced, is so easy to do ... And quite frankly, if a website will not allow me to even read their content without requiring my email address, I tend to be a bit suspicious anyway - and go elsewhere! |
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Tried this + and company name to the email address but it didn't work for my gmail account. Came up as an invalid email account. |
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I'll add one more. yopmail.com It works just like mailinator except it holds the mail for a longer period of time. I find mailinator deletes them to quickly. |
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Have to give a shout out to Blur by Abine. Amazing service allows blocking and deleting your fake address with a simple click within an email. On top of that, masked credit cards, phone number, and tracking protection. Great service and my "Go-To". |
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Sneakemail is not accepting new accounts right now. So I created a "Plus" account with Trashmail. To have this newsletter senr to the new address, I subscribed using the trashmail address, and this system would not accept that address. No explanation. Irony... |
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