Apple, Firefox, and Proton have similar offerings, each with its own pros and cons. A new one just dropped: DuckDuckGo, the privacy-first search engine provider, just opened up its Email Protection service after a year of beta testing.
The good news is there are ways to better protect your email privacy. If a company doesn’t have your real email address, that’s one less thing you have to worry about getting out there if (or, really, when) that company gets hacked. Emails get leaked in data breaches all the time, and there’s a lot a determined hacker can do with your email address, especially since email addresses often double as logins.
You might not be so fine with a bunch of other companies you have no relationship with knowing it, too. You might be fine with getting emails from the store you gave your address to, or even that store knowing whether you opened their emails. That helps them build an ever-more-comprehensive profile of your online (and offline) life. Your email address has become one of your best and most persistent identifiers, and data brokers and marketers will match what you do with it in one place with what you’ve used it for in others. While it’s creepy to think of your email reading habits being tracked, that’s not the only reason why you should consider taking a few extra steps to protect your email. If you’re the kind of person who turns off read receipts on texts and DMs, this is probably not good news to read. Anyone can sneak a tracker into your email services that do this are plentiful and free. Oh, you didn’t know it was possible for email senders to know all of that about you just because you clicked open? It very much is, and it happens a lot - in newsletters and marketing emails especially. It’s nothing personal I just don’t want anyone knowing what I read, when, how many times I read it, the device I read it on, and even where I was when I read it. But their authors wouldn’t know it because I’ve disabled the trackers that detect and tell the senders when subscribers open their emails.
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