This will lead to the disclosure of your account name (username), so it is not suitable for protecting your identity.
Do you use them, and for what purpose?
That would depend on what your subdomain or domain name is, and how you choose to use this service at large. You are absolutely not mandated to use any real name if you don’t want.
So, I’m not sure what you mean or how.
Thanks for your reply.
Personally, I would use a shared domain alias for each service, even multiple aliases for a single service.
I used to use 33mail but found it unsuitable because I received a lot of unwanted emails sent to *@you.33mail.com. That was before addy existed. Therefore, I am unsure if anyone uses *@you.anonaddy.com. If so, for what purpose?
Many services offer similar formats (manyme, bulcclub, erine, etc.). I do not see the advantage of this. If I had a similar need, Gmail with its dot and plus sign would be unbeatable.
This feature also exists for Simplelogin btw.
I don’t use it. But I do have a subdomain I made that I can use to create email addresses on the fly if I need to. But I never do in practice. But it still doesn’t disclose any PII as you’ve suggested in your post.
The purpose is for on the fly email creation when you don’t need to or want to or can open the app to make a random one.
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I don’t think he had suggested that. He said it would lead to the disclosure of his Addy username (Addy use the username as the subdomain by default if I remember correctly), not PII.
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I see.
If there’s no PII in the username, what difference does it make if it’s known? Simplelogin does not have this by default. Didn’t know this was the case with Addy.
If usernames are exposed like that, using aliases for each service becomes meaningless, so using Gmail as I mentioned above would be better.
Apart from the purpose of creating instant emails, it has quite a few drawbacks. Of course, no one would use a username containing PII when they know about and use the alias mail service.
I see these statements as contradictory. I’m afraid I’m still not sure where you see the problem if aliasing is possible to keep your emails private and unidentitiable if there’s no PII in usernames.
No.
Assuming you have an account named abcxyz (not your PII) at addy, you use shop@abcxyz.anonaddy.com for Amazon, search@abcxyz.anonaddy.com for Google, mail@abcxyz.anonaddy.com for Yahoo, etc. Doesn’t that mean all the services you sign up for know your username at addy is abcxyz?
Compared to fdsj32ds8@anonaddy.me for amazon or gl4os4jf@anonaddy.me for google, there is a significant difference.
Which one will you choose?
Only if the others know this is a legitimate subdomain that belongs to you where you get emails and that’s how you use to create emails for the various accounts you have.
That’s why I think it should be recommended to be only used selectively and not always for any email you want to make for any account. Otherwise, anyone who knows this about you can create random emails and have them delivered to you increasing the risk of being phished.
I would always choose to create random emails for each service. So, the second option you mentioned.
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