Hide email on the internet with email aliases

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Especially in times of digital data collars there are some possibilities
to hide your email address. I am talking about email alias services. On
the market there is a wide range of services, all with their own features.

I am looking for the right service. I have looked at the services:
Simplelogin, AnonAddy, Firefox Relay, DuckDuckGo. Does anyone have any
experience with these applications?

Best regards,

Raphael Barbieri

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Raphael Barbieri wrote:

Especially in times of digital data collars there are some
possibilities to hide your email address. I am talking about email
alias services. On the market there is a wide range of services, all
with their own features.

I have no experience with any of the services you mention, but given you
are using gmail, do you know that you can create variations of your
email address by adding a plus sign and an arbitrary string to your
email local part?

https://support.google.com/a/users/answer/9282734#email-address-variation

I'm not trying to advocate using gmail, but given you are already using
it, this may be a low effort solution. Admittedly it's also easy for
trackers to remove the arbitrary string, to "normalize" the email
address to only the relevant part.

Also, some websites don't accept email addresses with the plus sign in,
for -- I kid you not -- "security reasons". ft.com, I'm looking at you.

What I ended up doing is to use the dot for this purpose, and I can use
a different email address for each website. But I'm running my own mail
server, so I can decide how the email local part is parsed. Not everyone
wants to run their own MTA though.
For me a dealbreaker would be to having to create a new alias on a 3rd
party web site before using it, YMMV.

Thomas