You want to open an account with a new internet service but prefer not to use your regular email account. What are you doing? If you use Gmail, you can use some tricks to filter possible spam emails that may come later. The most famous of these is adding a plus sign (“+”) to your email, but Google seems to be working on another alternative.

This is about A system called “Protected Email” (“Armored Email”), which Android Authority detected in the 24.45.33 beta of Google Play services. According to the text description, the feature aims to “keep your email address private.”

This option seems to be designed to be available when we create new accounts in Android applications. According to its description, it “can protect you from online tracking and data theft.” For example, it is not yet known whether it will be used to create new accounts in web services.

In all cases, the emails sent to us by the services we have registered with will reach our email and we can disable this email forwarding at any time. to succeed the system creates various disposable aliases (or with a limited number of uses) will forward the message to the main address. The real address is thus “camouflaged” with pseudonyms that act as auxiliary email addresses.

This feature is not really available at the moment and only its description appears in this beta version. However, this is usually a clear indication that it is in development and may appear soon. What’s unclear at the moment is whether this will be an option available to all users or whether Google will offer it to subscribers of the Google One program.

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