It is sometimes a good idea to avoid sharing your personal email address with websites, services and contacts if you suspect spam or want to keep your privacy. Temporary email services offer one of the best ways for that, especially if the email address needs to be used only once for instance to signup to [...]

Categories: Browsing, Firefox

Temporary email services are great when it comes to protecting one’s privacy on the Internet. They are especially useful during website and service sign ups, considering that a lot of services sell user information or use the information to send advertisements. But, those disposable email addresses are not suited for all purposes. It is often [...]

Categories: Browsing, Firefox

Disposable email address services provide access to temporary email addresses, that often require no registration. Those instant email addresses are used to register accounts at websites without revealing personal or work related email addresses. Lets exemplify the signup process. The registration process remains the same, the only difference is the email address that is entered [...]

Categories: Browsing, Email, Firefox

Have a service that you want to signup to but prefer not to signup with your own email address? You could use a disposable email address for that purpose if the new account does not contain sensible information. Another option is to use a proxy email address provided by services such as Tempalias. A proxy [...]

Categories: Email

Disposable email services are a great way of hiding an email account during account signups on the Internet. Many Internet services (and some computer programs as well) require an account before the service can be used. Some of these websites send unwanted emails to the user or sell the data to other companies that will [...]

Categories: Browsing, Firefox

One-Way Email services, also known as disposable emails or throwaway emails are a great way to anonymize your data when signing up for websites or services. It sometimes happens that I need to access information that are located in a members only area of a forum for instance. I know that I will be visiting [...]

Categories: Email, Online Services, The Web

I’m currently tweaking the new theme which takes more time than I thought. I just want to apologize for the lack of articles in the last days. Once the new theme is published I will have more time to write articles again.

I have been writing about temporary (disposable) email services before which can be used to register to certain web services without revealing your true email address. This is great if you do not want to risk that the website is selling your email address.

This is however a security risk if you do register at a service that is sending passwords to the email again if you have forgotten them. Everyone who knows the email that you have registered with could use the forgotten password request to get your password.

Categories: Email

Many sites have the requirement that you need to signup to access their content. I don’t want to talk about the positive and negative effects of forcing users to signup before they can access information on a website but I would like to point out that some websites use the signup process solely to gain a valid email address from the user which can be sold to questionable companies. A temporary email address on the other side is a way to be able to signup to those websites without revealing one of your private email addresses.

Categories: Email, The Web

It has been a long time since I wrote the first article about Disposable Email Address Services and I think it is time to update the old article with new services and get rid of dead ones. Before I start listing several websites and services that allow you to use “one-use” email addresses I will shortly explain why everyone should have at least one service at hand all the time.

Categories: Email