When someone sends an email to your DuckDuckGo address, it will be forwarded to your existing inbox. This is a forwarding address that is tied to your current email account, be that Gmail, Outlook, or something old-school like Hotmail. When you sign up for DuckDuckGo's Email Protection, you'll get an address, but it's not a traditional email account. Starting today, Email Protection is available to anyone who wants it. Last year, DuckDuckGo rolled out its Email Protection service in a limited beta. Even the simple act of opening an email can relay data to third parties, but privacy-focused internet firm DuckDuckGo has a solution for that. Hopefully, this is something the company tackles in the future, and while we likely don’t need another email inbox to manage, one that puts privacy at the very forefront of its mission is one well worth considering using full time.There's almost nothing you can do online that doesn't leave digital footprints. Perhaps the only hiccup is that while emails are sent through the server and delivered to your inbox, you cannot create an email using your email. Realistically, given the drive for more privacy online, DuckDuckGo’s Email Protection service sounds really great.

More importantly, if the email address is ever compromised online, you can easily delete it and start again.

If you get to a point where you want to delete your account, your email address is removed 30 days after your account is deleted – all but ensuring there is no record of you whatsoever. The only piece of info that is saved is where the email is forwarded to, and that’s okay because you are deliberately giving the service that address.

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