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Mozilla Relay - Mask your email address

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Mozilla Relay - Mask your email address
>I’m seeing lots of people subscribing with their real email address to different newsletters or random websites that they might use once in a while. > >For a couple of years I have run a proxy SMTP that I kept to forward emails to my real address, as a privacy measure. > >People tend to use the “+” sign in order to identify if they address was sold, for example signing up with “michael.john+amazon@gmail.com [michael.john+amazon@gmail.com]”, now what most do not realize is the fact that when selling data to third parties, most companies parse their email lists and clear our those “+” sign. (Source: I have worked with companies that do that) > >I found the relay from Mozilla to be massively useful in this case, so if anyone is interested, have a try with it: > >https://relay.firefox.com/ [https://relay.firefox.com/]

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