What are the benefits of Masking Email Address

There are some websites that generally ask for your email address for several activities. As for instance, while downloading some free e-book, you have to provide email ID so that you can receive the download link sent from them. By doing this way, they try to build a data bank and afterwards it helps them to contact. Well if the site is fine and the mail is useful then it is fine but when they begin to spam you then what to do? No need to worry as there is one benefits of masking an email address which help you to avoid spam by using third party browser extension.

Ways to avoid spam

If you are providing your email ID anywhere on the internet then you are inviting spam. Although they promise that they will not sell your email address to anyone but still they share your email address with third parties. In fact there are many spam filters available but they are not sure, they will help you. Among them, few come with an unsubscribe choice but they also don’t have any surety.

Therefore the best to prevent from spam is to mask your email ID while providing it to websites. It will be better when you use temporary emails. As temporary files last for long period of time and expire after a long time. They are knonw to be the ideal for such things such as receiving links for e-books etc and also to prevent from spam.

How to mask an email address

To mask an email address, you need a third party browser extension. Example of email masking is MaskMe and Blur. This both extension comes in free and also in paid form. In free version, it masks only the email addresses and the paid version moves little bit forward to mask credit card and phone number numbers.

MaskMe is available for Chrome and Firefox but still it is not be updated. Developers have already developed a new addon known as Blur which does many more things. This is also available for Firefox and Chrome.

While using an extension, when it asks for email ID, there you will get an option of mask the email address. When you select that, you have to enter an email mask instead of real email ID. The mail sent to masked email ID will be then forwarded to your actual email ID. Now it’s your turn to decide which one to keep and which one to erase. That is when you begin to receive promotional email from third party, you can set in such a way that is deleted is automatically.

Temporary email ID’s help

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Temporary emails are applicable only for some period of point such as 10 minutes or half an hour. This type of email ID’s are used when such type of work is required. For an instance, if you want to give an email ID to get the download link then you can easily make one temporary ID and use it rather than using your original ID. After you receive the download link, the email ID expires and further emails will bounce. By this way you will prevent spam.