How do you hide your email to escape from advertisers?

There are many ways to hide your email from targeting ad companies and online advertisers.

Advertising companies seek users' e-mail so that they can track them across the Internet and personalize ads and campaigns.

These companies get your email when you register on one of their sites or when one of the sites you use sells your data to advertisers.

And then you find your email filled with spam and advertising campaigns for various services that you may or may not use.

This privacy breach has prompted a lot of companies to start working on tools to hide email and prevent advertisers from accessing it.

Ways to hide email

You can hide your email in two different ways, using email forwarding services or fake email.

Email forwarding services

These services are based on a very simple and easy idea, as they give you a fake email to use to log in instead of your real email.

When you receive a message in the dummy mail inbox, this service recognizes the content of the message and decides either to direct it to you if it is important or to leave it in the dummy mailbox if it is advertising or not to you, and of course you can check the dummy mailbox to search for messages particular.

Some services allow you to create more than one dummy email, and this makes it harder to track you via email.

There are many tools that provide this service, the most important of which are:

Apple's tool to hide e-mail

Within iCloud Plus subscription, Apple provides a new tool that allows you to hide your e-mail when you register on any site through its devices.

This tool can easily create a new fake email by clicking on the login box and then choosing to hide the email.

Create a dummy mail

You can also create a dummy email away from the login box by following these steps:

Go to your device's Settings app, and then tap your iCloud account picture.

After that, choose the Hide Email feature, and then create a new account.

Firefox service for forwarding messages

The Mozilla company, owner of the Firefox browser, provides its own service, linked to the browser account, to make it easier for its users to access it.

The company provides a copy of the service for free, but it is much lower in features than most competitors.

The free version of the service allows you to have 5 aliases, but you cannot access or reply to incoming messages to dummy mail.

AnonAddy

This service works through its own website without the need to install any external add-ons or use a specific browser.

The service provides you with a set of features that come with its free subscription, such as:

- An infinite number of aliases

- The ability to associate an alias with more than one mail.

However, the free version of the service comes with a hosting space of approximately 10MB, and the space is small for messages that contain many images.

You can host the service through your own website without having to use its subscription for more privacy.

DuckDuckGo

DuckDuckGo has become one of the biggest privacy companies on the Internet, from their search engine to their browser and services.

Through this service, you can get mail with the address Duck.com, and the company promises to remove all follow-ups in incoming messages to you.

But the service is still in its experimental phase, and you need to register in the waiting list to get it.

Using temporary dummy email services

These services differ from message forwarding services in that the new mail you get is temporary mail.

This means that it disappears and stops working completely after several minutes or days as you wish and the service is provided to you.

There are many different services that allow you to use temporary email such as GuerrillaMail or 10MinuteMail.

There is also a group of Arabic services such as Bulk, Temporary Mail, or TempMail. Most of these services provide applications to install on the phone or you can use them directly from their site.

You may encounter difficulty when using such services with some sites, in which case you must change the service and use another service.