Blog
Blog
Tips, guides, and news about disposable email addresses, online privacy, and staying safe from spam.
-
How to Sign Up for Anything Online Without Being Tracked
A practical guide to creating accounts, trying services, and downloading things online without handing over your real identity — no technical knowledge required.
-
The Privacy Stack — Temp Email, VPN, and Password Manager
Three free or cheap tools that together cover most of your personal privacy online. What each one does, why you need all three, and how they work together.
-
Data Brokers Are Selling Your Email Address Right Now
Data brokers compile and sell personal information including your email, phone, and address to advertisers, employers, and anyone who pays. Here's what they collect, who buys it, and how to limit future exposure.
-
How Email Verification Works (And When a Temporary Address Is Enough)
Confirmation links, one-time codes, magic links — a plain-English look at what email verification actually proves, and when a disposable inbox satisfies it completely.
-
Temp Mail for Gaming Accounts — Smart Uses and One Big Warning
Disposable email works brilliantly for beta sign-ups, launchers you'll use once, and gaming newsletters — and terribly for your main Steam account. Here's where the line is.
-
Which Services Block Temporary Email Addresses? (Discord, Steam, Netflix and More)
Some sites reject disposable email domains at sign-up, others accept them without a second look. Here's a service-by-service rundown and what to do when you hit a block.
-
Disposable Email vs Email Aliases — Which Actually Protects Your Privacy?
Email aliases and disposable emails both promise inbox protection, but they work very differently. Here's an honest comparison of when to use each.
-
Stop Giving Your Real Email to Free Trials
Free trials harvest your email for aggressive sales sequences. Use a disposable email to try software without the follow-up spam.
-
How Developers Use Temporary Email for Testing (With API Examples)
Stop using your personal email for testing sign-up flows. Here's how to automate disposable email creation in your E2E tests, CI pipelines, and QA workflows.
-
Why You Should Use a Temporary Email for Online Shopping
Online stores sell your email to marketing lists within hours. Here's how a disposable email protects your inbox from post-purchase spam without losing order confirmations.
-
Burngate — Surviving a Spam Flood and What We Learned
Four days after launch, we got hit with a spam flood. Here's how we detected it, responded, and implemented rate limiting to prevent future attacks.
-
tempy.email is Live — Free Disposable Email for Everyone
Today we're launching tempy.email, a privacy-first disposable email service. No sign-up, no tracking, just instant temporary email addresses.