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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.
Signup forms, receipts, breach dumps, and pixel matches feed your address to brokers. Unique aliases break the link and contain the spread.
Exactly-once delivery does not exist. How to build webhook consumers that survive retries: idempotency keys from Message-ID, replay-safe effects, dead letters.
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.
Why webhooks need HMAC signatures, and how to verify them properly: raw-body signing, constant-time compares, replay windows and key rotation, with code.
AI agents need email, but mailbox OAuth is a huge blast radius. The least-privilege pattern: one address, a filtered pipeline, structured JSON delivery.
The state of email privacy in 2026: what's tracking you, which defences hold up, and a realistic setup that takes an afternoon to build.
Breaches will keep happening, but they don't have to hurt you. Practical steps to protect your inbox from data breaches before and after they occur.
Most marketing emails contain tracking pixels that report when, where and how often you open them. Here's how email trackers work, and how to stop them.