Should I create a new email for a private tracker?
Should I create a new email for a private tracker?
Concerned if the site is seized my regular email be exposed. Thanks
I create a new email for each new sign up so I immediately know who leaked it. If spam is coming I can close it
At that point, just get a custom domain with a catch-all email system. Any emails sent to the @[domain] address will hit your inbox, so you can do things like Target@[domain] and Walmart@[domain]. Then if you start getting spam from one of those, you know who leaked it and you can filter them into spam. All without needing to go through the hassle of creating a new email address.
Hell, my password generator (Bitwarden) even has the option to create custom usernames for a catch-all system. It can either do them randomly (like the passwords) or pull them from whatever site I’m making the account on. So like it’ll pull the site’s title and use that as the e-mail address, then append the @[domain] to the end automatically.
This is exactly what I need to do. I have a custom domain attached to Protonmail. I've been using duck duck go for aliases with Bitwarden but this solution sounds perfect. I always wondered what that catch all option meant.
I do that
Same. Have been doing this for like 5 years now. Oddly enough the spam that comes in is never from any of my aliases. Time well spent 🙃
All kidding aside, it’s great that I can I just abandon them for random accounts that have nothing on me, further reducing the actual front facingness of my real email. If I this feature was there from the start, I’d never have spam!
If you're in the States, maybe take a peek at Firefox Relay.
Other countries are available:
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Or simple login or Proton Pass
Icreated a new email on proton for tracker and piracy stuff. No need to have it associated with my regular email/persona
Get your multiple personalities on. Costs nothing to create a second identity for separate functions, bonus if there's no cross contamination in the form of using one for the other's recovery info.
Aliasing and forwarding is not a good solution if you are concerned about law enforcement, because your personal e-mail is still linked with the tracker, just behind an extra hop and in addition you allow someone in between to read your e-mails. You had the answer yourself. Create a completely fresh free e-mail account somewhere, using as minimum a private tab to prevent tracking data to link anything to the account.. and if you can get a free e-mail account with IMAP/POP access so that you can use it in an e-mail client to leak less data, do that.
Yes, you should. There's a low probability that anything bad will happen but you might as well reduce that to zero. Private trackers (should) only email you for account creation confirmation and whenever you want a password reset.
Check out the Privacy Guides page on Email Aliasing Services
Realistically nobody's going to expend the legal effort to come after owners of accounts on a site unless it's very illegal content like CP. however it's still a very smart idea to compartmentalize snd keep separate email accounts for different services so that it's both harder to build profile on you, and also less likely to lose All Your Everything if one of the emails is compromised.
Yes. With VPN. And so many lessons learned after about how you didn’t have to do it, but you did it.
I recently started doing this for everything with Simple Login. You can create aliases either ahead of time or configure them to be ad hoc. I went the route of a custom subdomain, but that’s not required.
You can go with an email proxy service, to name a few
- Firefox Relay
- SimpleLogin
- Addy (Previously AnonAddy)
Which one do you suggest?
SimpleLogin. It’s owned by Proton, and I use their VPN and mail quite a bit. And it can be integrated with BitWarden to generate random usernames that forward to your mail account
Personally I chose Firefox Relay since I managed to grab premium for 1$/month, and I could integrate it with Bitwarden through the API.
Use Duck Duck Go email protection. It's free and works great. And they even enabled replies
I’ve been using SimpleLogin for over a year and it’s been great. I also pay for Proton Mail, so I get SimpleLogin Premium for free.
Personally I did yeah. Not like they expect you to use it very often
The only emails I got on my tracker mail are the invite/confirmation and the invoices for my seedbox.
SimpleLogin allows you to create private email aliases, all emails sent to an alias will be forwarded to your real email address. I've been using this for over a year and it's been great. If you pay for Proton Mail, you also get SimpleLogin Premium for free.