Privacy should not depend on what you can pay.

Why it exists.

Your email address is the most widely shared piece of personal data you have. Every website that receives it can link your accounts, follow your purchases and pass it on, and a single breach exposes it everywhere at once. Protecting it has usually come at a price.

Why I built it.

It began as a practical problem. Every service I signed up to wanted an email address, and I did not want to give the same one to all of them. So I needed a different address for each, and the number only kept growing. For a while I paid about 45 euro a year for a plan with ten addresses, and ten turned out to be far fewer than the services I actually use.

Then I discovered aliases: one address per website, all forwarding to the inbox you already have. It was exactly the right idea. What I wanted from it was a complete free plan, and a service designed to keep as little as possible about you. So I built it.

Today I use Skudo for every signup I make, government services included. I depend on it the same way you would.

Why you can trust it.

Skudo is designed to hold as little as possible about you. Your messages pass through and are not kept, and the address an alias forwards to is stored encrypted, so even a copy of the database would not say where anyone’s mail goes.

Everything Skudo does keep is listed, with how long it is kept, in an architecture document anyone can read, alongside the transparency report and the source of the Firefox extension.