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I don't know about any usability dis-/advantages, as this is the only service I have tested. Is duck.com open source? Addy.io is and has an option to self host. And it is not US based. But for most users this might not be important.

I have about 250 aliases and I think I never reacht the 10mb limit. But I also pay for the ultimate subscription so I wouldn't necessarily notice if I did.

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E-mail forwarding (addy.io)

submitted 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) by Ungraded@lemmy.ml to c/degoogle@lemmy.ml

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Hi,

I know this is not exactly a pure "degoogle" but as many members of this community are looking for a gmail replacement I would like to recommend an anonymous mail forwarding service like https://addy.io/. I would also like to hear your opinions on this or several similar services.

In case you don't know what it does here is my short explanation: It is an email forwarding service. So basically you sign up with your (new non gmail) email address. Whenever you sign up for something you would normally use your email you use a new Addy.io mail instead. This works on the fly without having to login to Addy.io beforehand or even having to use a plugin or app. Let's say I would want to sign up for Lemmy I would just type "lemmy@my_name.addy.io" in the email form. Now all mails to this address get forwarded to my real email address without Lemmy knowing it. I think this has a lot of benefits:

Additional privacy: the service I sign up to doesn't know my mail. In case it gets hacked it is more difficult to figure out where else I signed up.
Phishing and spam protection: Mail from "my bank" to my Lemmy address saying I should change my password. I don't think so. But now I know they got hacked or sold my data and I can just delete the alias.
switching mails: let's say you just degoogled your mail but now it turns out the CEO of the new mail provider is a dick. Switching you mail on all the services and news letters you use again? I don't think so. Just change one mail in your forwarding service and your good to go

Made Little Progress in Switching from Google, But Stuck on the root of the problem by Ungraded in c/degoogle@lemmy.ml

[-] Ungraded@lemmy.ml 2 points 8 months ago

In addition to an email provider I would also reccomend a service like https://addy.io/.

It creates email aliases that forward to your real email address. So you never have to give out you real mail address to any service. If you create a new mail address for every service you use you can easily deactivate it in case it gets spammed. Also you know that the service sold your data or got hacked if the mail gets spam.

Another benefit is that in case the CEOof your current email provider turns out to be a dick you can just go to another provider by changing the mail address where Addy.io forwards your other mails to.