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9 Feb 2022, 12:48 AM | #16 |
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13 Feb 2022, 08:22 PM | #17 |
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Just email support@duck.com from your old/current email address and let them know the new email address.
Eventually you will update it from the DDG browser app. |
26 Aug 2022, 09:06 AM | #18 |
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DDG's tracker-blocking email is now available to everyone: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2022...ne/?comments=1
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27 Aug 2022, 06:24 AM | #19 | |
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27 Aug 2022, 06:29 AM | #20 |
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I was able to sign up for a short and distinctive email address. The forwarding to Gmail is quick, and I can just hit reply and my response is sent using the Duck address. I checked the headers and there are no clues as to the Gmail address I am using. With the extension you see a little Duck symbol in any email field and you can choose to use either your main Duck address or a one-time address. Very simple and neat. All free too, at least so far.
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7 Jul 2023, 09:53 PM | #21 |
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Suddenly within the last week almost all mail forwarded from duck.com go straight into my Spam folder in Gmail. I keep reporting "Not spam" but has not helped so far.
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10 Jul 2023, 09:54 PM | #22 |
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Have you asked this question in the Gmail subforum? It sounds more like an issue with Gmail than an issue with Duck.com.
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10 Jul 2023, 10:41 PM | #23 |
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It got so bad that I switched duck.com to forward my emails to a non-Gmail address which I monitor.
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25 Jul 2023, 01:17 AM | #24 |
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When this email-alias service was announced, I was very keen to get started.
It was from a very trusted site, with a good domain, and a unique feature of blocking trackers. Unfortunately this was not the be-all end-all of an alias service to me. First of all, I don't like that they kept a waiting list. This made the service feel unnecessarily "exclusive". You were also forced to install their phone browser, just to sign up for the waiting list. I get that they're trying to push their browser, but this just doesn't feel right to me. I've been with Firefox for too long to hop around these days. When I finally got my invitation link, I was bummed to see that there was pretty much no way for managing your alias, other than the browser extension. Not even a webpanel of sorts. I didn't end up getting much use out of this alias. Personally I'm wanting a unique alias for every site anyways, and since DDG only offers 1 alias, it's already over once you're breached once. Furthermore, it seems that email-providers have now started to implement their own "tracker blocking" anyways, so the one thing that made this unique, has vanished now. I guess, if you like the @duck.com, you can still gain something from this. But if all you're after is a short domain, there's sites like hey.com and my.com, which are both shorter and more general. |
25 Jul 2023, 05:31 AM | #25 |
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You can create a new alias any time you need one with DDG. I've created multiple ones for various subscriptions. Use the DDG extension in Firefox or Chrome or the DDG app to create new aliases. By the way, Gmail has stopped sending my DDG aliases into the Spam folder. Gmail does seem to actually take action when you report some address as Spam or Not Spam.
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26 Jul 2023, 01:45 AM | #26 |
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Got it, thanks.
Seems there has been a shift in how the service operates. I'm fairly sure you were only able to have a private address back when I tested it. If DDG does offer an unlimited amount of aliases, and allows for reply-from-aliases, I take back my stance, and definitely will give this a recommendation. Personally I'm using a custom domain, and I like to generate my aliases with <forename>.<surname>@<domain>, just because it looks less "spammy", so I probably wont be finding a use for the service. But I'm happy to hear that it's a valuable contender. Email aliasing has become an important part of securing your inbox, and the more trustworthy companies the merrier. |
23 Feb 2024, 10:10 PM | #27 |
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Enlighten me. It seems to me that generating multiple aliases at your own domain only gives you part of the benefit of using aliases. You get the ability to block an alias or just delete it to prevent spam from coming in, but it seems any half-intelligent spammer or hacker would just look at how you are creating your aliases and then guess how to make one that would reach you. Plus, they might be able to learn a lot about you by searching for the contact information for your domain or just by doing a general Google search. Seems to me if you want to go to the trouble to use aliases they should be at a domain that can't be tied directly to you, like XXXX@duck.com.
Update: DDG aliases have been working great so far. I wish there was a way to change the forwarding address without receiving an email at the forwarding address. If for some reason you lost access to the forwarding address you can't change it in order to still keep receiving the DDG aliases. |
24 Feb 2024, 02:10 PM | #28 |
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I have owned my own personal domain for about 25 years and used it for email over that interval. I have usually used a wildcard alias acceptance, which lets me see what spammers and phishers are sending to my domain. Many years ago I would see some dictionary attacks to random usernames and common user names. But this is very rare now, and nearly all of the spam I’m receiving fits into one of the following categories:
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25 Feb 2024, 03:26 AM | #29 |
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25 Feb 2024, 05:23 AM | #30 | |
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