Privacy & everyday use

• Privacy & everyday use How to stop spam email: what works, and what makes it worse Where the spam actually came from and how to tell the four sources apart, why the link in the message and the button beside the sender are two different requests made by two different people, what your provider learns from spam, block and delete, the three header lines that settle whether an unsubscribe is safe, and the address-per-service ladder that is the only durable fix. 7 Sept 202617 min readBeginner
• Privacy & everyday use Plus addressing: what you+tag@ hides, and what it doesn’t What subaddressing is and where it is written down, a provider-by-provider table of who accepts a plus tag and what else they accept, the three jobs it does well, the four it cannot do, why sign-up forms reject the character, and a side-by-side of the alternatives that change the address instead of decorating it. 5 Sept 202613 min readBeginner
• Privacy & everyday use Burner email, alias or temp mail: which one, for what The three tools defined by who ends up reading the mail, a side-by-side across privacy, lifetime, recovery, blocklists and cost, the decision rule (would you mind losing the account?), how to use them together, the alias services worth knowing, and the three situations where none of them is the answer. 1 Sept 20269 min readBeginner
• Privacy & everyday use Why sign-up forms block disposable email, and what to do How disposable-domain blocklists are built and kept, the three checks a form can run (list, MX, catch-all probe, provider score), what blocking costs the sites that do it, why the local part is irrelevant, the three honest ways round a refusal — your own domain, a domain kept off the lists, or an alias — and how to block well if you run the form. 1 Sept 202610 min readBeginner
• Privacy & everyday use Email attachments on a disposable address: limits and safety What counts as an attachment, where the 5 MB ceiling really falls once base64 has had its way, downloading from the inbox and from the API, and why every file comes back as an anonymous binary. 20 Aug 202611 min readBeginner
• Privacy & everyday use Email tracking pixels: what the sender learns when you open How a tracking pixel actually works, what a single request tells the sender, why remote images are blocked here by policy rather than by editing the message, and the louder signal that blocking them leaves untouched. 20 Aug 202610 min readBeginner
• Privacy & everyday use Sign up for anything without giving your real address What a disposable address is, how to open one, the alias trick that keeps the service you signed up to from reading the rest of your mail, and the cases where a throwaway address is the wrong tool. 19 Aug 20269 min readBeginner

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