The best way to protect your personal information is to never post it on the internet. But how do you avoid revealing your personal email address? You can’t send and receive mail without exposing it, and so junk mail is unavoidable, right? Wrong! Using a temporary email service, you can communicate with online merchants, blind dates, even spies, all while keeping your real email address secret.

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We’re not talking about the totally ephemeral email addresses provided by services such as temp-mail.org, guerrillamail.com, or emailondeck.com. With these services, anybody can get a truly throwaway email address, with no connection to an actual email address. You get your response by keeping the page open, and your temporary address vanishes in anywhere from a couple of days to 10 minutes. The best temporary email services, discussed here, let you continue to use your regular email address without exposing it to junk mail and snoops.

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