SimpleLogin Blog

Starting January 1, 2024, SimpleLogin will move its legal domicile to Switzerland and join Proton AG. read more →

SimpleLogin makes it easy for you to generate an anonymous email alias anytime you don’t want to share your real email address. As a service to protect your email address, we focused a great deal on security and privacy when we built SimpleLogin. Today, we’re taking the step in improving our security and launching a bug bounty program. read more →

SimpleLogin has completed a third party security audit with leading security firm Securitum which found no critical vulnerability. read more →

The past 6 months have been intense for SimpleLogin, with many new users, many new features, and many new technical challenges. I’m now happy to share this news with you: SimpleLogin is now part of the Proton family. read more →

Google announced recently that it will end support for the G Suite legacy free edition on July 1, 2022 and that customers will have to subscribe to a paid Google Workspace plan to continue using Google services. Email aliases can be a cost-effective and arguably easier to use alternative. read more →

Currently SimpleLogin support happens via emails. Anyone can reach out to our support address with any question/request and usually receives the response within 24h. This flow doesn’t scale well when SimpleLogin grows. read more →

If you don’t have a custom domain, this new feature allows you to own a subdomain on SimpleLogin and create aliases with it. Just make up an alias like anything@your-sub.aleeas.com when you need to provide an email address. The alias will be created the first time it receives an email. read more →

We are happy to receive the best open source award (concours des Acteurs du Libre 2021) from CNLL. read more →

Gmail aliases allow you to create a new email address by appending the plus sign(+) or dot sign (.) to your current Gmail address. A closer look at its pros and cons. read more →

On July 13, some SimpleLogin users have experienced several hours of email delay. No emails were lost during this time. This post goes into the details of what happened and what measures we take to prevent this incident from happening again. read more →

Our contributor, Nate, explains how to use email forwarding to simplify your digital life and why masking your address can protect you from threats online. read more →

33mail is a fantastic service to create email aliases and it’s been online for more than 10 years. Here are the main differences between SimpleLogin and 33mail. read more →

Create email aliases for free. Protect your email from spam and safeguard your privacy online with a few clicks. No hidden fees, ever. read more →

In this article, we explore what is an email alias and you can use aliases to protect your digital identity. Do more with your email. read more →

10 tips to protect your privacy online. Effective, easy to implement, and free to use. Take back control, and enjoy a new peace of mind when browsing the web. read more →

Burner Mail is an email alias solution to generate burner email addresses and protect your digital identity when shopping online or registering to newsletters. In this post, we take a look at the similarities and differences between Burner Mail and SimpleLogin. read more →

On June 16, 2021, we have experienced important delays in email delivery that has caused several issues. We are deeply sorry for this incident. Here’s what happened, the investigation, and how to prevent this incident from happening again in the future. read more →

Firefox Relay is a Firefox extension that allows you to quickly create an email alias. In this post, we take a look at the similarities and differences between Firefox Relay and SimpleLogin." read more →

In this blog post, we will explore these three operating systems and see which one fits best according to your threat model. read more →

Establishing a threat model isn’t something easy to do. What is a threat model even? In this 0-to-1 guide, you will learn what a threat model is, how it can help you with your digital privacy, and how you can establish one correctly. read more →

People often tell me they don’t care about their privacy, because they have nothing to hide. But like Edward Snowden puts it, that’s like saying freedom of speech doesn’t matter because you have nothing to say. read more →

Social Login buttons like the ubiquitous Login with Facebook/Google/Twitter/… is convenient for users. However some providers like Facebook do more than just authentication and can track users, even if they haven’t clicked on the Facebook login button. read more →

Email subaddressing, also known as Gmail plus sign (+) trick allows you to create a new email address by appending the plus sign(+) to your current email address. A closer look at its pros and cons. read more →

Revert the change on reverse-alias generation read more →

On August 11, 2020, some SimpleLogin users have experienced up to 8 hours of email delay. We deeply apologize for this incident and will make sure this issue will never happen again. No emails were lost during this time read more →

SimpleLogin Android & iOS apps are finally available, big thanks to Thanh-Nhon, our iOS/Mac/Android expert! read more →

Having an easy to understand yet complete privacy policy is important to us. That’s why we have decided to rewrite our privacy policy to make it more detailed and accessible. We also created a security page that explains in detail how your information is protected. read more →

Pretty Good Privacy (PGP) is a program to encrypt your emails, texts, files, etc. As emails on Gmail, Yahoo, Outlook and other popular email services are stored in cleartext, PGP can be a solution to keep your emails from being read & analyzed by these big techs. read more →

The feature the most requested is finally ready: you can now add several real email addresses into SimpleLogin and choose which one to use when creating aliases… read more →

I’ve always been using AWS for hosting from simple prototypes to critical B2B systems. Thanks to its incredible catalog of products, almost all needs are covered… read more →

After months of working, the first version of our Safari extension is finally available! read more →

I learnt about Spamgourmet via a friend who has been using the service for more than 10 years. Even though I couldn’t create a new account on Spamgourmet, I only heard nice things about this service. read more →

Lot of users complain that every time they need an email, they need to go to SimpleLogin dashboard to create an alias and this flow is just too slow. There must be a better way! read more →

Why do I receive so many spams? When this question was asked by my girlfriend (now wife 😅), my immediate answer was “Stop giving away your email” and I suggested creating a secondary email for “suspicious” websites read more →

Implementing correctly an authentication system is hard. And users don’t like it. read more →