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Brave Adds Email Aliases to Hide Your Real Address

posted by jelizondo on Saturday August 29, @09:11PM   Printer-friendly
from the who-are-you? dept.

fliptop writes:

Brave 1.94 adds Email Aliases, giving users five free forwarding addresses to hide their real email from websites:

Brave, a privacy and security-focused browser, has announced a new feature that will allow users to generate unique email addresses to sign up for online services, and receive emails from those services without revealing their real email address.

The feature, called Email Aliases, has been added to the latest desktop version of the browser, 1.94, and will be coming to mobile soon.

According to Brave, instead of handing over their real email address, users generate a unique alias for each service. For the time being, Brave is "offering everyone the option of five free email aliases," tied to their Brave Account.

[...] The service works by forwarding emails sent to an alias on to the user's real address, without letting the sender see that real address. In the process, Brave acts as a mail server that stores the account email, the aliases, and some information about message delivery.

The company promises that it "doesn't read the contents of emails sent to an alias. We only process emails to perform standard spam and virus filtering."

Since I run my own mail server, I use a special domain and create a unique email address for each vendor I purchase from. It makes it much easier to 1) stop delivery of unwanted marketing email from the vendor, and 2) figure out which vendors are selling my info to 3rd party data brokers. In the latter case I usually stop buying from any vendor who sells my info. What do you do to thwart marketing email and spam?

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  • (Score: 1) by shrewdsheep on Sunday August 30, @09:32AM (4 children)

    by shrewdsheep (5215) on Sunday August 30, @09:32AM (#1452582) Journal

    That's true. But I have not seen it happening in practice. The other option is to buy a domain which usually comes with email. Then use a catch all filter to capture any email addressed to your domain into the mailbox. This gives you arbitrary aliasing which cannot be worked back to any "real" address.

  • (Score: 3, Interesting) by canopic jug on Sunday August 30, @10:42AM (2 children)

    by canopic jug (3949) Subscriber Badge on Sunday August 30, @10:42AM (#1452589) Journal

    One way to use the plus addresses is to use a separate account and then route the non-plus incoming mail to spam.

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    • (Score: 1) by wArlOrd on Monday August 31, @05:25PM

      by wArlOrd (2142) on Monday August 31, @05:25PM (#1452701)

      Except some sign-ups don't accept a +iffied email as valid.
      Yes it wrong, but who is even going to slap their wrist.

    • (Score: 2) by sonamchauhan on Monday August 31, @09:47PM

      by sonamchauhan (6546) on Monday August 31, @09:47PM (#1452713)

      That is true. I was coming back to make just this point I'd forgotten to add but you beat me to it

  • (Score: 2) by number11 on Sunday August 30, @06:07PM

    by number11 (1170) Subscriber Badge on Sunday August 30, @06:07PM (#1452615)

    Using a catch-all does work. At least until they/AI figure out that all mail to that domain goes to you.