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Firefox Relay vs DuckDuckGo email

Email, Firefox, Opinion, Privacy, Security / tony / 2022-09-26 / #email, #emailprotection, #privacy, #security, #tips, #trackers

I signed up for DuckDuckGo’s privacy relay email service (https://duckduckgo.com/email) as soon as i could. Aside from their little dust up about them sending some of your info to Microsoft (https://thenextweb.com/news/duckduckgo-microsoft-tracking-sparks-backlash) they’ve got a good track record re: privacy. I signed up for some CNet and PCMag newsletters and found that DuckDuckGo removed a few trackers from every email they sent. Yay DuckDuckGo! But one of the things I don’t like is they don’t provide a dashboard – I can’t see what duck aliases I’ve created and used.

So, I signed up for a paid Firefox Relay account cuz they do have a dashboard! What’s more, you can associate each email with the website or service you’ve used it with! Major yay! I signed up new Relay email addresses for CNet and PCMag newsletters and began comparing the duck emails with the relay emails. Relay isn’t removing ANY trackers!?! I emailed Relay support and got a fairly prompt response however it wasn’t terribly satisfying. The relay folks are being very responsible and making sure that the trackers they remove don’t break the email – yay them! I’m continuing to correspond with Relay’s support on this topic. In the meantime, I suggest you go with the free DuckDuckGo email relay service if you want a little more privacy in your newsletter traffic, dashboard notwithstanding.

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Proton has a Google Drive alternative

Android, Security / tony / 2022-09-26 / #opensource, #security, #tips, #zeroknowledge

It’s been in beta since 2020 but they’ve finally made it available to the rest of us. Android app and web app available now, the rest is coming. As with all Proton products it’s open source, privacy focused. 1GB for free, 200GB for $4/month or the whole package (mail, calendar, drive, and VPN) for $10/month. Read about Drive at https://www.howtogeek.com/835660/proton-drive-is-a-privacy-first-google-drive-alternative/

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Reduce the chances of your accounts being hacked

Leave a Comment / Email, Security / tony / 2021-11-11 / #email, #security

Use different email addresses for each of your services. That way if one of your email addresses is compromised, the rest are relatively safe.

How to go about this? The simplest route: use a service like SimpleLogin.io to generate unique email addresses for each of your accounts.

More complex but more flexible: get your own domain. If you own a domain you can create as many email addresses as you like. For instance, by owning TonysTakeOnTech.com, I “own” all the email addresses associated with it, from [email protected] to [email protected] and everything in between. If you get an external email provider like FastMail.com, you can then set up your DNS to use fastmail’s email servers and deliver all that email to you. It’s more complex than SimpleLogin.io but it’s ALL under your control.

And if you take either of these approaches be sure to get and use a password manager!

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