General > General Technical Chat
Great news for SPAM haters (aren't we all?)
Benta:
DuckDuckGo has opened it's email tracker-stripping service for Spam etc.
The idea is, you open an email account at duck.com which you use when having to enter your email at a site you don't really trust or don't want to be tracked from. (plenty of those around)
duck.com will strip the spam (it may also be totally legit emails) for trackers and forward the mail to your real email address
Get your duck.com address now, before the nice ones are gone. ;)
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2022/08/duckduckgo-now-offers-anti-tracking-email-service-to-everyone/
Now, a problem might be that all those spam merchants decide to disallow duck.com adresses. I've already thought around that one: make a free email account at some free mail provider, and use that up front. Let the account forward the mails to the duck.com account automatically, and throw the email into the garbage at the same time.
Done.
I look forward to this, I already have my duck.com account. :)
EDIT: I'm going NUTS right now. I'm trying to post a link to the arstechnica.com article, but it just doesn't appear in the post. Why not?
ataradov:
I don't really get spam on my regular account. I use FastMail and their spam filter is pretty nice. I also set spam scores for instan deletion and move to spam folder somewhat high. I get occasional spam email once a week or so, but most of it gets trashed before I see it.
And for sketchy services or mandatory signups where I don't really care to provide my real email, I use throwaway email at mailinator.com. Some sites block mailinator, so I have a custom domain that uses mailinator as MX record, so mailinator would accept mail for that domain with no effort on my side. For a domain cost ($15/year) it totally worth it.
Benta:
It's not really about spam, but trackers. HP, Apple, Ebay, Google, you name it, like to use this. Stripping incoming emails of this cr*p is to me a good service.
I't up to you.
ataradov:
Is not that blocked by essentially every email service? I have my stuff set to never download anything but the text for sources that are not in my address book. And I think this is the default setting everywhere.
I guess once you decide to add the source to the address list, you would be tracked without additional blockers.
But also, I'm not sure how I would feel about my primary email being @duck.com. A lot of stuff can go really wrong here.
Benta:
--- Quote from: ataradov on August 26, 2022, 09:41:17 pm ---Is not that blocked by essentially every email service? I have my stuff set to never download anything but the text for sources that are not in my address book. And I think this is the default setting everywhere.
I guess once you decide to add the source to the address list, you would be tracked without additional blockers.
But also, I'm not sure how I would feel about my primary email being @duck.com. A lot of stuff can go really wrong here.
--- End quote ---
No. All the responses from the above mentioned sites are graphic/html. Do you only receive text emails, like 30 years ago? Times New Roman?
And I never said anything about duck.com being your primary email.
But perhaps my readability index is too high.
Navigation
[0] Message Index
[#] Next page
Go to full version