Why You Need a DIFFERENT EMAIL Address for Every Account

Most of us only use one email address for everything online. This is much less secure than you think. Data breaches happen all the time and it's just a matter of time before your personal information gets leaked.

Which is more sensitive: your password or your email address? While your PW is important, your email address is often a unique identifier to you online.

Creating and managing multiple email addresses may seem overwhelming, but it's actually easier than you think! Blur by Abine, 33Mail, Maskmail and SimpleLogin all provide platforms to manage a large quantity of addresses.

And while these are all great resources, our top recommendation is AnonAddy. They provide custom domains, GPG keys, reply accessibility, it's open-source, and you can self-host on a private server.

Overall, compartmentalization is a key principal for leveling up your cybersecurity. Using unique email addresses, along with passwords, is one of the best ways to implement this principle online. That way, even if one of these services are breached, your personal information won't be leaked--just your masked email accounts.

00:00 Intro
00:37 Advantages
02:47 Was I Pwned
03:28 Managing Multiple Accounts
04:23 AnonAddy
07:12 Compartmentalization
08:34 Data Breaches
09:47 More from Cyberspatial

What are you waiting for! Let us know in the comments if you're going to use multiple addresses or just stick to one!

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[Cah-Games]

Thank you for making these videos about digital security, I'm learning a lot of things!
I have a question though: is 2fa enough to prevent a hacker from logging in into my email account (presuming that they don't know my phone number)?

[MaryJones-fswf]

this is an en example of what an educational video should be. No trying to be cute, acting, gesturing, flirting, empty talks. THANK YOU. Can you update for 2024?

You are a Godsend. My bank accounts have been breached about twelve times. I never thought of using different emails., or double passwords. Thank you so much.

[kbytes]

I wish I knew this information much earlier. Currently the amount of online accounts of me have quadrupled the last 2 years. I will try to use this service from now on.

[JCHall-uftz]

That Chase email looked pretty well done, I like how they put individual transactions on that. Clever!

[marianomontiel]

This seems like to much of a hassle. I wouldn't be able to deal with all of this.

It would drive me crazy!

I've just found my email was found in 6 data breaches... this explains the spam emails I've been receiving.

EDIT 1 MONTH LATER: I couldnt help but give it a try. It's actually very simple to implement and once it’s set up its VERY easy to the point I don't even feel like I'm doing an extra step.

The key is to transition slowly so that you give yourself time to get the hang of things (I'm still in the process after 1 month and have no plans to do it ASAP)

[lukrezialaval]

I would love to watch the entire video, but the loud music makes it impossible for me to listen to you.

[horsied]

One of the best youtubers I have ever watched! Keep up the good work!

[JCHall-uftz]

I love this concept because I teach and use having over 20 email addresses based on category. So basically anything you would make a folder for is just an independent email address. My clients aren't always sold on the security part because they figure their passwords and 2FA will save them. However, the not having to make filters part, no-spam, and device discrimination is appealing. My question is: with either one of the vendors you suggest, do you have to forward to a single email address or is there an option to forward to multiple email addresses? Example, Financial has it's own email address, so can the 10 generated email addresses for logins forward to the dedicated Financial email addy while the 15 generated email addresses for Travel be forwarded do the dedicated email address for Travel or does everything have to forward to a single email address?

[Evan-eybf]

Just got started with maintaining privacy online, your videos are really helpful! Thank you!

[jonatanlindstrom]

A bit late to the party, but how would you say this compares to doing random aliasing and using a catch-all address on a domain you own? As I see it, that would yield a similar outcome without the need for another service than my webhost.

[mynameisgladiator]

What do you do with emails for friends and relatives? Aquaintances?

[maylin]

Finding this video is so informative, even if made over 2yrs ago. Very much appreciated. 🩷✨️

Also, I know some companies will send emails/letters, stating your information was breached.

I hate seeing articles saying "If you're a customer of said company, you might be entitled to a settlement." By the time those are written by someone, the closing date to apply for a pie of the settlement is pretty much close to closing.

I like this approach because then you know a breach happened and then look for the settlement info asap.

That way, even if you have to go through the step of answering questions pertaining to the timeframe/dates a breach happened and how you were affected, you already know you qualify for a settlement.

[McCov]

For example. You go to a dentist, Dr's office, Mortgage lender. When you fill out their forms and they ask you for your E-mail. Then what do you do? I have been notified of data being stolen from places like that.

[liinaennusaar]

This is new information to me. Unsure about the services reliability though as no experiences. Thank you for the video.

[terap]

Great suggestion but I have a question. Most platforms, e.g. Facebook, asks to login using your email address. Does this mean I would have to either memorize the cryptic email address or log into the anonaddy account and copy the lengthy address to log into Facebook?

[addd]

Interesting concept! Hadn't heard of this before. One question though, wouldn't this break a lot of protections on your main email account (SPF, DMARC, spam filtering, etc) since everything being sent to it is forwarded via the email service (blur, 33mail, etc) which you're essentially whitelisting? It almost seems like it'd be better if your email provider themselves (gmail, outlook) implemented something like this and provided it as a feature that way they could still integrate all their normal protections. I'm curious if email providers pick up on this at some point and offer their own solution. Also, I guess the email randomizing service (blur, 33mail, etc) could also just integrate their own spam/phishing/dns auth protections into the service before forwarding it.

[DeniseSkinnerDeniseSkinner]

Oh my God that's too much work if an email different password how the heck am I going to remember all that

[raphmd]

A really nice video !
It's even weird that you only have 1.6K subscribers

[bobbyblaise]

Invaluable information. Subbed. Thank you 👊