The HideMy.world blog
Practical guides on keeping your real address out of databases, taming noisy inboxes, and turning email into structured data your tools can actually use.
Patterns for AI email triage that stay on budget: plain English questions, deterministic rules in front of the model, and designing for false positives.
Signup forms, receipts, breach dumps, and pixel matches feed your address to brokers. Unique aliases break the link and contain the spread.
What a catch-all on your own domain really costs in spam, deliverability, and upkeep, where aliases win, and a middle path that uses both.
Per-vendor addresses, role inboxes that survive staff changes, breach containment, and routing invoices and alerts into tools instead of one inbox.
Unsubscribe links confirm you exist, take days to act, and get ignored by the worst senders. Filtering mail before your inbox works better.
How to turn receipts, job applications, and support requests into rows in a Notion database, with sane fields, a readable title, and no second inbox.
Give every shop its own alias: trace which store leaked your address, cut marketing blasts without losing receipts, and keep order mail machine-readable.
When a throwaway email address is the right call, where temp-mail sites break down, and how persistent aliases keep a burner readable for years.