I have been an EMParrot user for some time. I use it for managing the email for my extended family. I have dozens of cousins, so EMParrot has been a great way to manage all the communications traffic. With this long list of participants, sending email used to be a challenge, with changing addresses, new members and the occasional user getting hacked and spamming everyone. Now, with the ability to contact anyone 1-on-1 through EMParrot, we can send personal messages without having to find specific addresses and without the worry of corrupt messages. I recommend EMParrot to anyone who has a long list of people to connect.
Changing Your Email Tells Them Who You Became
The two earlier posts in this series – The Cookie That Never Expires and What 1,500 Emails Reveal About Tracking – described how a hashed email address became the ad industry’s favorite way to connect you across companies, and then showed that happening in one person’s real mail. This post looks at the same problem from the other side: what happens when you try to get out from under it.
You switch to an email aliasing service. Over the next few weeks you work through every account you have and swap the old address for a fresh alias – the bank, the airline, the pharmacy, the streaming service, fifty places in all. It feels like real work, and it is. When you finish, you feel unlinked: the old address is retired, the new ones are scattered across dozens of services, and nothing ties them together but a list only you can see.
