We think it is important to say who we are and what we stand for.
Vision
What you do with your email – read it, click it, forward it – is yours to choose to share, or not. Anything hidden that tracks it, tags it, or traces it back to you is a violation, not a feature.
Mission
EMail Parrot exists to make that belief real. We strip hidden trackers before they ever reach you, remove identifiers that would otherwise survive a forward or a share, and give every person – and every group they’re part of – an address they can hand out as freely as a phone number, without fear it becomes a leash, a leak, or a thread that ties everywhere else they’ve been back to who they are. The outcome we’re after is plain: an inbox you can trust again, and an address that doesn’t work against you.
Principles
These come from 25+ years running one family’s email list, watching the same pattern repeat: an address shared too widely becomes a target for everyone who has it, one hacked account becomes a delivery vector for the rest, and no amount of after-the-fact caution undoes an address that’s already out. The failure isn’t any one bad actor – it’s a system that treats sharing an address as consent to whatever happens to it next. These principles are what should replace that:
Generic by default. Load-on-open elements in email have no legitimate need to exist in their current form, and they should go away entirely. Real, non-tracking use cases exist, but they deserve solutions that don’t cost people their privacy – and they’re only getting less useful as privacy systems (like Apple’s) close the loophole anyway.
Links carry only what they show. A link should be plain unless it truly needs to carry something extra, and when it does, that should be visible, not hidden – marked clearly as personal or campaign data, not smuggled in.
What’s visible is yours; what’s hidden is not allowed. Text you choose to include in a message, even an account number, is part of what you’re sharing. That same identifier hidden in a header, a pixel, or metadata that survives after you’ve deleted the visible content is not personalization – it’s wiretapping.
An address deserves a PO box. No one should have to hand over their real, permanent email address just to receive mail – on their own or as part of any group they belong to. A disposable, revocable stand-in should be ordinary, not a trick for the technically inclined.
Correlation has to be earned, not assumed. Systems that stitch your address into a profile across sites and companies – the cookie that never dies – shouldn’t get that for free. People deserve tools that default to breaking that link.