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One Easy Way To Eliminate Spam
Email sucks, but it doesn’t have to. Here’s how 33Mail, SimpleLogin, or Apple’s Hide My Email can eliminate spam and secure your privacy.
Email is the necessary evil we all love to hate. When Ray Tomlinson sent the first email in 1971, I’m sure he didn’t realize that 50 years later, it would be the bane of most people’s workday. Yet, here we are in 2021, with roughly 300 billion emails sent daily — nearly a third of those being spam. Yeah, email is the worst. But, it’s something none of us can live without. Thankfully, there is one easy way to eliminate spam from your life: stop giving people your email address.
It sounds effortless, but it’s often quite difficult. When I moved from 1Password to Apple’s Keychain, I transferred around 350 user logins. Each of those required my email address. That’s, of course, just the tip of the iceberg. From newsletters to doctor’s offices to receipts… my email address is everywhere. Except, it really is not.
Most of the email addresses I use to sign up for new accounts and subscribe to newsletters are disposable. They exist only for that single website and forward all emails to my actual address. This way, it’s easy to track down where spam comes from and eliminate it. Thankfully, setting up disposable email…
