Brave adds email aliases so you stop giving your real email to every site

Brave has rolled out email aliases in its browser. When you hit a sign-up form, the alias is a throwaway address that forwards to your real inbox. If you get spammed or a leak happens, you can kill that alias without touching your primary email. It's the kind of privacy feature most browsers ignore — Chrome doesn't offer it, Firefox doesn't either.

The tech is simple and the reason it matters is obvious: every site you sign up for gets a piece of your real address. Data brokers harvest those, scrapers build lists, and breaches expose your identity to people who don't need it. Aliases let you separate your inbox from the noise. It's a small change that cuts through years of the web's default of handing out your address like candy at a parade.

Why this matters for us: the people who sell our data don't care about our privacy, so we build the walls ourselves — every alias is a brick.