Do E-Mail proxy services exists to improve privacy and security?
Privacy in the sense that one wouldn't need to give a website his/her username (possibly even in the firstname.lastname@domain.tld form) and in a security sense that the used e-mail couldn't be used to log into the e-mail service (thereby making it useless for a leaked password, because the e-mail address couldn't be used to login).
Example:
john.doe@gmail.com could be someone's e-mail. If there were a Google Privacy/Proxy service then one could generate as many random e-mails as possible and if one would be sent spam to, or leaked, it could be disabled:
- abcdef@gmail.proxy
- 290dcef@gmail.proxy
could both redirect mail to john.doe@gmail.com.
One could be blocked/disabled/removed if wanted without abandoning the real account (e.g. because 290dcef@gmail.proxy
has been compromised or spam is being sent to it).
Would it really improve security and privacy? Or am I missing something?
And does such a service exist? (as a bonus, replying from such proxy e-mails would be even better, converting the real account from
field to the proxy mail address)
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tld's (or other privacy implementations) but the question isn't about that and please refrain from addressing that, unless it would answer or improve the answer(s) to the questions. A lot of services already block the+alias
for gmail addresses, that's known. – Gizmo Jan 12 '20 at 22:34