{"id":48984,"date":"2026-07-14T03:02:36","date_gmt":"2026-07-14T03:02:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/speedinet.co.za\/?p=48984"},"modified":"2026-07-14T03:02:36","modified_gmt":"2026-07-14T03:02:36","slug":"stop-giving-away-your-email-address-use-these-5-email-alias-services-instead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/speedinet.co.za\/?p=48984","title":{"rendered":"Stop giving away your email address \u2014 use these 5 email alias services instead"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>When it comes to online security, the only thing we\u2019re told not to reuse is our passwords. However, in reality, passwords rarely go alone and are almost always paired with an email address \u2014 something that travels everywhere in plain text but rarely gets the same level of caution.<\/p>\n<p>By handing out our personal email addresses, we effectively give away our digital identifier, which can be used to trace us back. Just as you shouldn\u2019t reuse your passwords everywhere, your personal email shouldn\u2019t be used on every platform you sign up for, either \u2014 especially since email addresses are exponentially harder to replace if they end up in a leak.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When it comes to online security, the only thing we\u2019re told not to reuse is our passwords. However, in reality, passwords rarely go alone and are almost always paired with an email address \u2014 something that travels everywhere in plain text but rarely gets the same level of caution. By handing out our personal email [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[382,361,383],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48984","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-email","category-features","category-privacy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/speedinet.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48984","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/speedinet.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/speedinet.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/speedinet.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/speedinet.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=48984"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/speedinet.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48984\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/speedinet.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48984"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/speedinet.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48984"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/speedinet.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48984"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}