WhatA service that generates truly unique, non-guessable email aliases for every vendor signup, with automatic forwarding and one-click disable, replacing the easily-defeated plus-addressing and pattern-based alias schemes.
SignalCommenters point out that plus-addressing is routinely stripped by services, and even custom-domain aliases using predictable patterns like [email protected] can now be reverse-engineered by cheap LLMs — current alias approaches are fundamentally broken.
Why NowLLMs can now cheaply guess alias patterns at scale, rendering the most popular privacy technique used by technical users ineffective — and Apple's Hide My Email has proven mainstream demand for random aliases but only works within Apple's ecosystem.
MarketTechnical professionals and privacy-conscious consumers; Apple charges for iCloud+ ($1-10/month) and SimpleLogin was acquired by Proton for ~$30M, validating willingness to pay. Gap: cross-platform, non-ecosystem-locked solution with leak attribution built in.
MoatEach alias becomes a data point in a leak-attribution network — the more vendors tracked across more users, the faster the system can identify which vendor leaked and alert all affected users simultaneously.
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