It turns out to be an amazing way to avoid spam and stay safer online.
If you accept, it will create a new, unique email address and paste it into the form.
“We should use disposable emails when communicating with people whom we do not know yet know.
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There are several advantages here.
If you use the same public email for all your logins, half of their job is already done.
The other big win is that marketers cannot use your email address to track you across accounts.
Nor can they effectively spam you.
With Hide My Email, you buy that ticket, then abandon the email.
All of them are fantastic, but Apple (and DuckDuckGo) have one advantage.
If you ditch Gmail, you lose your email address and any future emails sent to it.
But if you switch away from Fastmail, you lose access to those masked emails.
DuckDuckGo and Apple simply forward emails to your chosen address, so they are more future-proof.
This doesnt hurt security, but it does compromise privacy.
Theres one scenario this doesnt coverwhen you have to write down an email on a paper form.
For this, you might consider learning one of your throwaway addresses and then discarding it after a while.
But for everything else, disposable email is totally essential.
