Alt email for naughtiness?

[Lustfull_Creeper]

So I'm thinking of changing up my adult internet persona a bit, in large part by getting a new email address.

gmail, yahoo, and Hotmail all seem to have attached social networking stuff, and I want just a simple email.

I know about the crazy airtight services like hushmail, but that seems like overkill. Are there free email addresses out there that just simply don't have things like profile pages?

 

[Zeb_Carter]

I just use Gmail and ignore the other stuff associated with Google. I have never filled out a profile or any of that crap.

 

[dutchrain]

I just use Gmail and ignore the other stuff associated with Google. I have never filled out a profile or any of that crap.

The same here.

 

[littlecordelera]

I just use Gmail and ignore the other stuff associated with Google. I have never filled out a profile or any of that crap.

Me too.

 

[Doog_kuron]

Well, what are the odds? Me too! ...ah, no wait. No I don't sorry, false alarm.

 

[littlecordelera]

Well, what are the odds? Me too! ...ah, no wait. No I don't sorry, false alarm.

Ah, rats!

 

[Doog_kuron]

Ah, rats!

I know, you're missing out on a real treat. Think...an afternoon spent with the grandparents. They seldom talk, they slurp on cups of tea that rattle terribly in the saucer, the clock ticking loudly in the background. A proverbial water torture of sound. Then, they tell you. That coffee that tastes like dish water isn't actually set upon a beautiful veneered table. It is in fact a coffin lid. I am that sort of fun.

 

[NebraskaFetish]

I still use Yahoo E-mail because it's easy for me and I'm used to it. I don't worry about the profile stuff either. Hell, I doubt people ever look at them or use them since Yahoo doesn't have their communities anymore.

The E-mail used in connection to this Lit name is an "alt" and not one I'd use for family and work...

 

[Bramblethorn]

I just use Gmail and ignore the other stuff associated with Google. I have never filled out a profile or any of that crap.

Just a word of caution on using Gmail for an "anonymous" account. Unless they've changed it, you have to provide a non-Google email address for account recovery etc. Some Google features will then leak info about your anonymous account to other Google users who have your regular non-Google address.

For example: my regular email address is pat.smith@iinet.com.au. I set up a Gmail account for "Mel Pornwriter" (mel.porn@gmail.com), using the iinet address as recovery address.

When my brother or my physiotherapist emails me at my iinet address, Gmail helpfully fills in my name as "Mel Pornwriter" - it knows that pat.smith and Mel Pornwriter are one and the same and it doesn't know (or doesn't care) that I don't want that link made public.

And then my elderly in-laws on G+ start inviting Mel Pornwriter to join their circle because it's figured out that this is a second-degree connection and so it suggests a connection...

Names and addresses changed, but all this actually happened. Fortunately my account name was a little less blatant than "Mel Pornwriter"!

Moral: if you're using Gmail, give your account a bland name that can't easily be traced back to your porn activities.

 

[CWatson]

Have you ever checked out yopmail.com ? The acronym stands for "Your Own Protection". It lets you log into the e-mail address you specified and keeps mail there for 8 days. However, I'm not certain you can reply out of it. (I primarily use it at my day job: I'm a Quality Assurance tester who sometimes needs to create a bunch of e-mail addresses in a hurry.)

 

[Zeb_Carter]

Just a word of caution on using Gmail for an "anonymous" account. Unless they've changed it, you have to provide a non-Google email address for account recovery etc. Some Google features will then leak info about your anonymous account to other Google users who have your regular non-Google address.

For example: my regular email address is pat.smith@iinet.com.au. I set up a Gmail account for "Mel Pornwriter" (mel.porn@gmail.com), using the iinet address as recovery address.

When my brother or my physiotherapist emails me at my iinet address, Gmail helpfully fills in my name as "Mel Pornwriter" - it knows that pat.smith and Mel Pornwriter are one and the same and it doesn't know (or doesn't care) that I don't want that link made public.

And then my elderly in-laws on G+ start inviting Mel Pornwriter to join their circle because it's figured out that this is a second-degree connection and so it suggests a connection...

Names and addresses changed, but all this actually happened. Fortunately my account name was a little less blatant than "Mel Pornwriter"!

Moral: if you're using Gmail, give your account a bland name that can't easily be traced back to your porn activities.

Yeah, I used my anon Yahoo email address for that. In all I have three Gmail address and three Yahoo address, they all point at one another and none to my real email address.

 

[Lustfull_Creeper]

Just a word of caution on using Gmail for an "anonymous" account. Unless they've changed it, you have to provide a non-Google email address for account recovery etc. Some Google features will then leak info about your anonymous account to other Google users who have your regular non-Google address.

For example: my regular email address is pat.smith@iinet.com.au. I set up a Gmail account for "Mel Pornwriter" (mel.porn@gmail.com), using the iinet address as recovery address.

When my brother or my physiotherapist emails me at my iinet address, Gmail helpfully fills in my name as "Mel Pornwriter" - it knows that pat.smith and Mel Pornwriter are one and the same and it doesn't know (or doesn't care) that I don't want that link made public.

And then my elderly in-laws on G+ start inviting Mel Pornwriter to join their circle because it's figured out that this is a second-degree connection and so it suggests a connection...

Names and addresses changed, but all this actually happened. Fortunately my account name was a little less blatant than "Mel Pornwriter"!

Moral: if you're using Gmail, give your account a bland name that can't easily be traced back to your porn activities.

Yeah, this kind of thing is exactly why I wanted to know if anyone knew of a more plain and serviceable e-mail provider. Hotmail wants to synch with windows and gmail has that stealthy little jazz there. My current alt is on yahoo, and I haven't had problems there yet, but who knows when they'll try harder to get into the networking biz.

 

[littlecordelera]

Just a word of caution on using Gmail for an "anonymous" account. Unless they've changed it, you have to provide a non-Google email address for account recovery etc. Some Google features will then leak info about your anonymous account to other Google users who have your regular non-Google address.

A gmail account can provide recovery for a gmail account. It doesn't have to be a non-Google account.

 

[silverwhisper]

yep, that's what i do with the however many i have.

but having said that, bramblethorn's point is well-taken. of course, it invariably is.

OP, whatever you decide to do, remember that logging into this account from a mobile device that you use to access your other accounts will almost yield some of the "leaking" bramblethorn described.

ed

 

[desiwife16]

Use gmail and ignore all the stuff on it.

 

[DriftWood75]

I use yahoo and gmail.

And like everyone else I just ignore the profile pages etc.

I have never had a problem with either accounts, but for a short while I had a hotmail account and that got hacked twice even after altering passwords. People who were contacts in my hotmail were getting spam off me.

Even now I still get a spam email from a contact still using hotmail usually followed by the "hey everyone my hotmail has been hacked for spamming" email.

I would certainly avoid hotmail.

But thumbs up for gmail and yahoo.

 

[MatthewVett]

I use gmail, too.

 

[charlie069]

Hushmail

you should try hushmail.com secure private email with encryption free account as long as you log in every3 weeks otherwise deleted.

 

[SovereignShe]

Gmail w/ incognito browsing or Hushmail.

 

[Hypoxia]

Buy a .net domain; mine costs ten bucks a year. Don't name it after yourself. Setup all the email accounts you want for yourself, family, friends, customers, etc. Only YOU know who's who.