@jon There is also #DuckDuckGo Email (forwarding service), which generates a random #email address for each form and integrates nicely with the browser: duckduckgo.com/email/

#Privacy

cc: @jan @nickheer @dreams

@damian @nickheer @dreams @jan that's definitely an option. However, I prefer @fastmail because I can use my domain for masked emails. Whereas you can't do that with DDG or Apple's Hide My Email.

@jon I like having things on my domain too, but in this case, I think it may be less private. You expose your domain, so it can be assigned to you (depending on the domain name, who else is using it, WHOIS data, etc.). Anyway, ownership (more control) is always a plus.

@damian since the primary goal is to thwart automated tracking and fingerprinting, I don’t think the domain matters for my privacy. If advertisers are going out of their way to discover my hidden WHOIS data, and they miraculously find a way to determine I’m the only person using the domain, and it’s all for the purpose of serving me personalized ads, then that would indeed be scary from an overreaching privacy perspective.

@damian I also wanted to say that I agree with you regarding other situations. For example, you could lose privacy in less automated circumstances. For example, if I sign up for a newsletter or submit a form, and if the person on the other end is curious enough, they could determine who owns the domain, as you said. So there are privacy implications there, in which case, DDG, Hide My Email, or using Fastmail's generic domain might be better to use.