Guides
Email privacy, explained without the jargon
Short, practical guides to protecting your inbox. Start anywhere — each one stands alone and takes a few minutes to read.
Basics
What is an email alias?
The five-minute explainer: what aliases are, what they're for, and how they differ from a second email account.
How it works
How email forwarding works
What actually happens between a sender hitting send and mail landing in your inbox — including private replies.
Privacy
How to hide your email address
Practical steps to keep your real address away from spam lists, data brokers, and breach dumps.
Ready to put it into practice?
Browse the use cases to see aliases at work — from online shopping to lifetime deals — or compare Vend with SimpleLogin, Firefox Relay, and addy.io.
Learn by doing
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