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The most popular open-source alternatives are SimpleLogin[1] and AnonAddy[2]. The former one was just acquired by ProtonMail[3]. [1] https://github.com/simple-login/app/ [2] https://github.com/anonaddy/anonaddy [3] https://protonmail.com/blog/proton-and-simplelogin-join-forc...
(Disclosure: I'm on the Relay team.)
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I use this feature extensively. My only wish is that it were easier to send an outgoing email via a Hide My Email address (rather than only being about to reply once the other party has sent the first message).
In iOS and macOS mail.app, you can select the from name in the compose sheet and the option to autogenerate and random email address using “Hide My Email”. Not totally intuitive but pretty decent.
There are lots of ways to do this. Postfix is nice but a little heavy. The simplest and most functional way I've found is https://github.com/0xERR0R/mailcatcher since all it does is forward the emails. You can even use a throwaway gmail SMTP so it doesn't get send to spam Easy to set up on a rpi/cheap VPS, as long as you have a hostname. And while you're there, look for a short domain name so it's fast to type (on cr…
I guess it's harder (although not impossble) to send email from this throwaway address, but that has never come up for me, for external accounts
The most popular open-source alternatives are SimpleLogin[1] and AnonAddy[2]. The former one was just acquired by ProtonMail[3]. [1] https://github.com/simple-login/app/ [2] https://github.com/anonaddy/anonaddy [3] https://protonmail.com/blog/proton-and-simplelogin-join-forc...
Mozilla also has Firefox Relay: https://relay.firefox.com/ (Disclosure: I'm on the Relay team.)
Sure, there were many services like that before, and many of us have used them. But making it an integral part of iOS can drive mass adoption. You have to credit Apple for that.
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I’ve experienced the same with comcast and have contacted their support. They claim there was no data breach or they aren’t selling emails, but that obviously isn’t the case.
Surely some attorneys would be interested in a class-action.
Additionally, they spend a ton of money lobbying and otherwise unfairly impeding competition, so in many places in the US, they are the only option, so it's give up your civil rights to lawsuits, or stay offline (or pay a wireless carrier who does the same anticompetitive scumbag shit a heinous price per gigabyte).
The state of both wireless and wireline broadband in the US is totally broken, and it's not getting fixed because it's broken by design, as part of the general attitude by large corporate interests and cooperative legislatures and regulatory bodies to treat the US population as a sort of natural resource like a flock of sheep to be fleeced rather than as legitimate customers to be serviced (or a legitimate market to be participated in on merits).
They do this by ensuring that there is no meaningful competition, and ensuring that if you do "willingly" engage in service with them, you have no meaningful legal recourse if they abuse you.
"We're the phone company. We don't have to care."
You have no real power against them because the people who control the system have decided that you should not have any real power against them.
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I do a simplified version of this. I just use a catchall account with Fastmail and then pick email addresses in the domain randomly. If someone abuses the address, I block it. I specifically do not use addresses that make it obvious what my strategy is. I end up just using a name and number that would look right at home on gmail. I'm also not trying to stop tracking, so much as I'm trying to have my own semi-permanen…
I've been thinking of a new way to use my email... - Only use one email address: hi@example.com - Always add a filter: hi+hn@example.com - Send all emails without a filter to SPAM Since it's not a common strategy, it is much more likely that spammers remove the +hn before sending an email than add one.