Here's another advantage of email aliases which might not be obvious: Let's say you give a unique email address to your bank. Much later on you receive email "from" that same bank saying you need to login and perform some important urgent task with your bank account. If that email was *not* sent to the unique address you gave to that bank, then it's extremely suspicious! Beware of clicking on any links in it!

@kimchristensen2175

Жыл бұрын

I never click any links in emails like that. I'd always use my regular shortcuts to get to my bank/amazon/whatever login page.

@bishplis7226

Жыл бұрын

uh, if it werent send to that specific email.... how do you know someone send you anything? cmon use your noodle!

@billh.1940

Жыл бұрын

Be careful anyway.

@garanceadrosehn9691

Жыл бұрын

@@bishplis7226 - I don't understand your comment, which makes me wonder if you misunderstood the point I was hoping to make.

@just.nobody

Жыл бұрын

@@garanceadrosehn9691 they sure did misunderstand you.

I am currently going down the rabbit hole that is trying to take control of my digital privacy and your videos make the process way less overwhelming. Thank You!

@NaomiBrockwellTV

Жыл бұрын

so awesome to hear that!

@nateromanowski793

Жыл бұрын

fuckin, on ya Devin lad!

@adamsackfield589

Жыл бұрын

How do you approach this? Are you meticulously going through emails and changing important stuff to new services and then dropping the gmail etc?

@johnnylego807

Жыл бұрын

You have a lot to do, they are tracking us from every single angle, and it goes deep, even into system hardware. you really gotta dig deep to shut it all off/ and or mitigate as much as possible.

@ballsdeep9648

Жыл бұрын

@@nateromanowski793 lol you cheeky ass comment made me cackle.

Been using 3 email addresses for 10 years. Best thing I've ever done.

@user-bg2tn4kg5m

3 ай бұрын

eight here

@panzershrek7942

2 ай бұрын

2 my old gmail and hotmail emails 2 my new Proton Emails 1 my new Job Tuta Email 1 my uh... Entertainment Email...

in the 90s i started with over 60 different email addresses for this reason. it soon grew into the triple digits. back then, no one really understood why i had so many addresses. today, it is far easier to create these forwarders to do the same thing. however, back then it was less invasive than it is now.

@SCAM-BUSTER.777

Жыл бұрын

I guess this was on your PC? How on Earth did you manage all these email accounts and not get confused?

@mrcvry

Жыл бұрын

Aliases on the mail server or an alias service. I have almost 1000 too. Almost everyone gets his own one.

@Copilot1204

Жыл бұрын

Wow your are ahead of your time

I am surprised that you didn’t mention the “hide my email” feature that has been part of iOS 15 and iCloud for a while. It auto-generates an unlimited number of surrogate email address for your iCloud email and provides the option for an autogenerated a 64-bit password. And with Apples expanded end-to-end encryption for most of your iCloud assets, it is a low cost service that makes sense for those in the iOS universe. If you activate the Advanced Data Protection feature, it becomes even more secure. The EFF applauded the move by Apple. The FBI was quoted in The Washington Post as generally saying it’s "deeply concerned with the threat end-to-end and user-only-access encryption pose." The move by Apple was brilliant because Apple itself can’t forcibly open encrypted data under this encryption scheme…which makes serving a federal subpoena to Apple essentially pointless.

@johnwilliam2474

11 ай бұрын

thank you for this! can you direct me to articles/videos that will tech me more about this? Do you believe is can serve much of the capabilities of SimpleLog in? Can one set up different folders and also reply with alias email addresses? Thank you again.

@commnavrizzo

10 ай бұрын

I too am surprised this wasn't mentioned, but it leads me to believe that this video was sponsored by SimpleLogin. It looks like a great service, but as you stated, if you're already on iOS or MacOS, it is integrated and easy to use. @johnwilliam2474 yes you can set up different folders within the mail app to filter and keep track of the addresses.

I love this channel, every time I think of some aspect of my online privacy I'd like to improve Naomi has either already made a video or seemingly a few days or weeks later releases a video. Absolutely fantastic.

I have like 5 emails the biggest problem is wanting to migrate most of them to different services. I separate them based on age, the older the email, the less important accounts I have it tied too. I've been considering protonmail for a long time, but haven't taken the plunge. I want to make my email more secure, and more private, but I'm also amazing at procrastinating

@insightss9454

Жыл бұрын

Does Proton mail not smell like a honey pot? Not your server not your data. Words are cheap and lies are easy. I'll suggest to consider running your own email server. purchase a static IP or DDNS service, have backups. Try the synology NAS drives astounding value and all solutions rolled into one that just works. well once you set it up. a considerable learning curve. Question is how much do you value your life being private? Only vulnerabilities that i see are that Synology possibly have backdoors coded in (not open source) and even if you install a opensource email server the "Intel Management Engine" operating system BIOS chip needed to run intel CPUs is a hardware level back door. (AMD has an equivalent)... I wonder if we could just cut the IC leg that connects to the ethernet? Anyways what it will at least achieve is making you invisible to data brokers and 95% of the internet. The members of the domination class that have access to the hardware backdoors, at least this far in don't seem to be interested in the average person or even criminals for that matter.

@lussor1

9 ай бұрын

​@@insightss9454wrong

@Homiloko2

6 ай бұрын

@@insightss9454 It's always a trade-off. Proton is private and secure enough for most people. Who cares if it's a letter-agency-honeypot? As long as you're not a criminal or an activist, all you care about is that your data is not being sold and shared and tracked over multiple services like google and amazon and microsoft tend to do. Hosting your own server takes exponentially more work to do than paying a few bucks for a proton account. And even then, your ISP could still have logs on all your mails. The reality is that email is not even that secure of a protocol anyway. Simply don't use emails for sensitive stuff that could compromise you, and you're good. A service like Proton is good enough for the the kind of stuff that you should be using an email for, simple as that.

Moving to proton was the best decision I could have made for taking back control over my email. Your videos have been invaluable so thank you 😊

I don't necessarily disagree with any of the facts presented here, but as someone who set up a personal domain and used a catchall email with various filtering strategies for over 10 years, my opinion is that, while it was functional, it was not worth it overall. I gave basically every external service a unique email (using various methods, including the "+" method described here). Over the years I needed to turn several dozen of them into actual email accounts so that I could send mail from them, which was a huge pain. I kept close track of all these, and set up all of the forwarding and "send-as" functionality, but it was always an uphill battle. In all of those years, I can count the number of times I received email to a service-specific address from an unrelated party on 2 or 3 hands. Of course, I was also very diligent with where I give out my emails. In the end, because my host was and is Gmail, the spam filtering is so good that all of the work and fuss was effectively for nothing. When Google unceremoniously booted all of its grandfathered-in customers from its once-free Google Apps domain service, I bailed and went back to using a single Gmail address and haven't looked back. And let me tell you, going out to all of the third-party services I'd given unique addresses to (multiple hundreds) and getting them all changed was a waking nightmare that took months. Am I more vulnerable now to data brokers and targeted ads? Debatable, since all of my emails were at my domain anyway, so I certainly never _felt_ more secure. Maybe it's easier to tie all of my activity to a single email address now, but if a career IT professional and hyper detail-oriented person can barely handle the effort and complexity of supporting their own multi-address ecosystem, I could never expect the average email user to maintain such a thing. And it only gets more complex and out of hand over time. In the modern world any kind of theoretically-ideal privacy is a fairy tale. Maybe you could avoid some of the pitfalls I described with an email alias service, but you'll never stop battling compatibility and workflow hindrances. The modern digital/commercial landscape is systemically incompatible with this ideology. IMO you're better off protecting yourself against the _actual_ threats by being generally informed on cyber security, using secure and unique passwords, with multi-factor authentication, and using the available financial monitoring tools and spam protection, than you are trying to stop the infinite waves of _potential_ threats represented by data brokering and security breaches.

Apple has built these functions into their Mail app, easy to create an alias account and turn them off when you want to, since it is part of their OS there is no additional payment for the service.

@ghost-user559

Жыл бұрын

They certainly spy on us, but yes that is a good free option for Mac users

@johnwilliam2474

11 ай бұрын

do you think this has most of the features that SimplLogin provides?

@allanfreeman6131

11 ай бұрын

@@johnwilliam2474 I'm not familiar with SimplLogin, been using Apple Mail since I started using an iPhone in 2010.

Long ago in a millennia far far away, I setup a couple different emails for this purpose. I only give my real address out to people I know and have worked very hard at keeping it clean. But recently the spammers have found a way in…. So I’ve been wanting to move to Proton for all the reasons you can surmise. This may be the push I needed. Thank you Naomi for looking out for us and another great video.

@oceanwonders

Жыл бұрын

Doesn't matter how careful you are, if your close people put your real address into their e-mail address book, and then their e-mail gets hacked, it's over. This creates such a large attack surface, it's so annoying. I feel the same way about all the people I give my phone number to. There should be low-cost services for numbers, too.

@BenDover4Mee

9 ай бұрын

There are literally COUNTLESS ways for your email address to get "out there", and once it does, it won't matter whether it's proton email or not, you'll still start getting spam to that address.

@sl4983

6 ай бұрын

And proton mail doesn't hide the metadata in your email. Unfortunately.

@junyaiwase

4 ай бұрын

@@sl4983awkward

I wish they mentioned Apple's Hide my email feature

I created about 7 emails a few weeks ago for privacy and it feels like such a hassle. Glad to find this video before I got too deep into multiple inboxes, this is so much more convenient and better too

@terenarosa4790

4 ай бұрын

How much did you pay for the domain?

@Brabbs

3 ай бұрын

@@terenarosa4790 i wanna know that too

@alittlelapin

3 ай бұрын

i could be wrong from the little research i did (and i'm new to this as well but) just bought my own domains and it depends on the name literally lol something popular or in demand will cost easily into the 100s but if you've got a unique name or special brand name and it's likely not taken/sought after then maybe anywhere from 10-30 bucks @@terenarosa4790

Thank you. Its been a long time since we could SMTP and set up own own filters. I'm glad someone is helping us with privacy.

In order to protect your original account is to create another account, however to protect the second account you need to create another account. This is what internet is about these days. Thank you for informing people.

This is incredibly timed! I'm working thru this very issue right now! I'm a Proton user and to find that SimpleLogin is part of them is awesome! I will be looking into this this evening! Thank you for the work you do here! It's outstanding!

@bumblebeegamerreal

Жыл бұрын

Nope, ProtonMail is not a privacy alternative. It is found to be an FBI honeypot. This software is used to track criminals and arrest them. Mental Outlaw covered this topic

@pantarei.

3 ай бұрын

SimpleLogin can remove your account with no warning, just if their algorithms find your use as inconsistent with their policies. "With no warning" sounds for me too risky to trust them in 100%. SL is good to use the free account and use the aliases for less important websites. But I would not build all my mail-system on this service. Especially if you pay for the premium account, "with no warning" is in my opinion somethin really not fair. So it is better to have few separate but real email adresses (like gmail) and a free SL account for less important things. Even if Google deletes your account for some reason, it will only delete one account. But if you build a system of several dozen logins to various websites on SL, losing your SL account would be extremely painful.

This was a really well done video, you surprised me by providing additional information besides the Gmail alias that everybody talks about. A lot of those downsides you mentioned regarding the Gmail aliases are ones I thought of, and are the reasons I hadn't used it in the past.

Thank You for the information. I had a Proton Account and never used it as it was difficult to swap but now watching couple of your videos I will try this again. Thank you.

Recently recommended your channel to a business woman I met. I might not implement many of these tips but knowing that they exist and keeping those options available is incredibly important. There are people in places with almost no protections and their having access to data safety is a way we can help support important freedoms across the entire planet not just our own backyards. That's worth doing imo.

I can relate to this, as I have a unique name shared by a few others in the US. Years ago I used my full name for an email address; where eventually, I had to abandon it due to dozens of weekly emails that were targeted for my namesake in another state. But, it is interesting to see the pattern of the regional entities attempting to contact my namesake in a particular state: Politicians, realtors, fundraising outfits, charitable causes, auto dealerships, construction companies . . . the list was endless. None of the emails were personal, but had the looks of being auto-generated. I was fortunate that email address was only given out to a few friends prior to abandoning it, as it was easy to update those friends with my new email address.

She is the next level privacy genius . Thank you very much

So glad KZread recommended your channel. Thanks so much for these tips!

Thank you NBTV, great video! I've been using catch-all email in the way you descibed for over 20 years but didn't know about simplelogin, thanks!! 😊🙏

Naomi the privacy Angel!

Naomi oozes in eloquence and elegance.

Thanks for helping everyone stay safe Naomi. 🙏 I try to siphon everything through a dozen different addresses but it does get to be a lot to manage. I had no idea about the sub-addresses. But I also don't use Google much.

I'm fed up with gmail. While they claim they aren't basing ads on email, I sure get a lot of targeted ads. Their analytics are also making me crazy. Thanks for this!

Sheesh I work in Desktop support and have to admit that I will have to watch this a couple of times before I 'get it' 😂 Must be gettin old

I'm a computer technician and you taught me something new about aliases!

Have been using unique addresses at one of my domains for maybe 20 years now & while it does take maybe an extra 5 minutes to stop & create a new aluas, it is SOOOO worth it. I get almost no spam & what I do get is immediately recognized & forwarded back to the sender's domain host as well as to any relevant companies. Good job on the video! I'm keeping the link to share when people ask me why I'm doing g this. And FYI get rid of your AOL account - it's the most insecure email client there is!

Personally I have multiple emails just for this reason. Additionally I NEVER give my real birthday when asked, they usually want to confirm you are of legal age. Finally, when possible do not agree to the privacy settings! Read the fine print, that is where they say that your information will be sold.

Love this ...trying to tighten up my digital life...luv these vids

So bizarre that you and AllThingsSecured uploaded essentially the same video within 2 hours of each other. You both rock, keep it up! Thank you for the amazing content!

@NaomiBrockwellTV

Жыл бұрын

Yeah pretty funny! Must be something in the ether 😂

@Ericx25

Жыл бұрын

I guess this video is sponsored by Prontonmail

@NaomiBrockwellTV

Жыл бұрын

@@Ericx25 no it wasn't, we don't do show sponsors

Great video Naomi. Thank you so much!!!

Thank you again Naomi for this information. This is yet another thoughtful video on a subject I must look into.

@bishplis7226

Жыл бұрын

yes its good advice martin

🤗 This YT is saving many person’s lives and nerves! Thank you!

Im loving Simplelogin with my own custom domain name. Thanks for the tip, Naomi!

You're very good Naomi. Very, very good. Take a bow girl, take a bow!

So much of information in just about 14 minutes. Love it!

I have never heard such product existed... Thank you so much!

Years ago I used to do the unique address per site thing when I ran my own email server. (16 years ago now) and even then I could see who was the culprit of the spammers. Since I no longer run my own email service I haven't done that. I know I have two address (one on two different providers) that were suddenly hit with thousands of spam within the same month due to being put on lists. I figured it was a data breach somewhere.

I don't know how I guessed this back then, but in 2005 I created 2 gmail accounts, (yes, when you still needed an invitation), i used one for spam and logins and the other one personal. Today, my personal account is free of spam and "the spam/login" one only receives 2 o 3 spam a week. Anyway, today I use proton mail and simplelogin. And I love your hair...

Dots in Gmail addresses are also ignored by Gmail so they can be used for sub addressing.

@lhs305

Жыл бұрын

Yep, with a 11 characters email, you can "easily" identify 1000+ logins just using dots between characters.

@-Shibbi

Жыл бұрын

But then you need to remember how many dots and dots position you registered for certain website, right?

@lhs305

Жыл бұрын

@@-Shibbi yes. Thats the hard Part.

@BlackDroid003

Жыл бұрын

@@-Shibbi Well, you should also be using unique passwords for every login. Thus a password manager would also "keep these dots"

@dylanbystedt

Жыл бұрын

Lots of websites are smart to this and either do not allow dots in the email address, or clean the email address data before selling it.

I’m already used to 3 emails: A personal A professional And a spam I’ve added some extras, for various reasons, but it’s nice being able to prioritize

Thank you for you tips about emails :)

Thanks Naomi, another great video!!!

This video was super helpful, thank you!

separate alias email for every service... this is the way... great video

Thanks. I am already using it!

Stumbled upon your youtube channel by accident and very glad I did. Subscribed and liked. Many Thanks

Wow! I need to do this ASAP! Thanks for the info.

Thanks for adding actual captions for the Deaf

Great video, thanks!

Useful and informative Thanks Naomi ❤

Great video, Naomi! 🙂I have Proton Premium since a couple of days and I know that I can create 3 domains and 15 addresses, but the problem I have now is that I got a creative block on what mail domain to choose (I'm just a particular) lol

Brilliant! I help older Americans and crazy how many give their info out by their address!

Thank you, this is really helpful!

Fantastic information, thank you! Polished video as well!

This is good to know. It makes sense to have an email for general purposes

Recently had to set up Proton Mail for a family member to link it with the domain. Was easier than I thought!

This is a great channel!!! Thanks

I have a catchall Adress for about 12 years now and are loving it, but Proton was new to me. My catch all is forwarded to Gmail. And I can send Email for aliases from Gmail, but I need to set them up in Gmail. Proton was new for me though. Really helpful. Thanks.

Thanks for talking about 'SimpleLogin'! I already use burner e-mail addresses for reasons I can't state, and some services, like Traderie, block Gmail task-specific e-mail addresses by blocking the + delimiter those use. I could very well use that, because I bought a domain for a future website I'm currently working on, and have work e-mail set up on that, but also bought another domain that is a predicted common misspelling, and I could use that. 🤔

Thank you for this video!

Great video! Thank you for sharing!

When Naomi begins to talk, is like a "Mermaid of Privacy"... she is Hypnotic!😵‍💫

Thank you. Most helpful.

Great information, thank you!

Thank you for this great explanation.

loved your video! thanks

I have watched a few of Naomi's videos and have learned so much. I recently signed up for Proton email and will definitely look into these two options. Thanks for the detailed information to help provide security to our accounts!

@ArleneGalila-hn9to

9 ай бұрын

Hello ❤❤

@ArleneGalila-hn9to

9 ай бұрын

Hello ❤❤❤

@ArleneGalila-hn9to

9 ай бұрын

Hello ❤❤❤

New to this Chanel. Great work thanks

That moment when I have at least 5 personal email inboxes and around 10 others for different uses, I use all of them. And I don't get lost :)

when you have those nagging privacy questions that you didn't even know you had ,NBTV got you 💪🏽♥

I have been using the hide my email feature with Apple for a couple of years and love it…

What about Apple’s “hide my email” function?

This is extremely valuable information thank you so much! God Bless!

Very useful video. Thank you.

Naomi is awesome!

10 min email has always been a savior for burner accounts

This helped me out, thank you

Such an awesome video!

Have had my own domain with a catchall since 2001. Email companies were pretty unreliable at the time and as a consultant I'd get a new email every job change. Pure chaos. That drove me to get my own domain and I happily fell into this strategy by chance. i currently own about 15 domains one of which is just for job hunting since that's such a spam heavy activity.

I love your sense of humor. SBFshill lmao XD This channel is enjoyable to watch. Other privacy focused channels make me feel uneasy after a video.

THIS! This is the friendship the world needs right now. Not like those 2 "other guys". (P+X=👎)

I'm currently watching 2 minute ads so i can benefit your account a little bit.

Thanks Naomi

ive been doing this now. i have one email address for singing up for stuff, one for work, and one for friends.

Great video!

Now subscribed! This video was so helpful.

@NaomiBrockwellTV

Жыл бұрын

Yay! Thank you!

Great vid... learnt lots... kudos

Impressive presentation!

Thank you, very informative

Proton’s new email alias feature with their password manager is extremely slick. Now I have a different alias set up with every website.

@NaomiBrockwellTV

10 ай бұрын

nice!

This channel is beautifully and thoughtfully edited with compelling and visually interesting graphics. SO much work goes into each video. And the content is well-written and delivered - and really helpful. Thanks, NBTV!

My issue with trying to protect myself at this point is that I have so many years of stuff I've put online, email addresses given out, I don't even know where to start! I even find it hard to use a darn VPN cause it causes issues logging into places and stuff... I wish it were all simpler.

@dragonfirelife

9 ай бұрын

Hello, what i have started doing is deleting old accounts that you dont use anymore and changing some thing around in those accounts before hand. Birthdays real names, etc. Once there gone, its one less thing to worry about. Some you cant delete like starbucks rewards. But those can be put into a new email account with no information in it.. i hope this helps good luck.

Great Idea!!!. Ty

You are just too clever... OK, I went on my IONOS account and created a catchall email (you just create a new email with * as the email name) and I forward those incoming emails to another monitoring account. Thanks for letting me know about a service I had but wasn't using!

I used to use spamgourmet but it recently stopped working for creating new addresses. Its creator died and his son is trying to maintain it. I don't know if it's working now, but it was great back in the day. Love the subtle humor in the graphics in this one 🙂

Thanks, Naomi~