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Anonymous Webmail Service Doesn’t Have To Be Hard. Read These Steps

What about one in four people does first thing in the morning? No, it’s not brushing their teeth. It’s checking their email. 

According to MarketingProfs, 26% of people check their email while still in bed.

Most people check their email at least 1-3 times per day (44%), while more than 10% do this activity over 15 times per day, says Statista.

That shows you how important email is in our lives (and that some people take it a step too far). 

But as you are getting a lot from using email, the company behind that email service and the government are getting a lot from you.

A lot more than you signed up for.

So, should you take it for granted that they are spying on your conversations?

Not.

Regular Webmail Services and Their “Concern” for Your Privacy

You use a webmail service if you’re using Gmail or Yahoo! Mail.

Webmail allows you to access your email inbox from a web browser and is usually free. The problem is that you can’t use it if you’re offline. If you want to open an old email, reply, draft, compose, or send a new email, you need a working Internet connection.

Regular Webmail Services and Their Concern for Your Privacy

One thing should concern you even more than being unable to open and send emails offline. The amount of data an email service like Gmail takes without your consent.

Google isn’t even shy about not caring for your privacy. A few years ago, Google was criticized for saying that “people who use web-based email today cannot be surprised if their communications are processed by the recipients ECS (electronic communication service) provider in the course of delivery.”

If that doesn’t say, “We don’t care about your privacy and will happily read your emails,” I don’t know what does.

Can You Set Up Gmail as an Anonymous Webmail?

You might ask, can you set up Gmail as a secure, anonymous webmail?

Kind of.

Let me explain.

Gmail (or Yahoo) is not designed to be private (read that quote again). So, if you want to do an anonymous webmail service out of it, you’ll have to find a way to “trick it.”

Here’s what I mean. 

To sign up for a Google account, which you’ll need to use Gmail, you need to:

  1. Go to the Create your Google Account page.
  2. Enter your First name, Last name, Username, and password. Luckily, you don’t have to use your real name and can instead use a fake one.
  3. Next, you need to verify your phone number. This is where most people’s dream of using Gmail as an anonymous webmail comes crashing down. 
Can You Set Up Gmail as an Anonymous Webmail

There is also a way around this, but you must use an anonymous text messaging service. This means extra work finding one that works in your country (a lot of them only work for numbers in the U.S.) and won’t require registration (i.e., you don’t have to leave your credentials).

And then, even if you got the phone verification part sorted out, your IP address might still give you away.

Finding an IP from an email is terrifyingly easy:

  1. Open a message from a person or company whose IP you want to see.
  2. Click the icon next to the “Reply” arrow.
  3. Select “Show Original”.
Can You Set Up Gmail
  1. Search for text (CTRL+F) beginning with “Received: from and you’ll find their IP.

If it’s that easy for someone, imagine how easy it is for Google, your ISP, or the government to track you using your email and IP.

What Does an Actual Anonymous Webmail Service Look Like?

Does this mean that an anonymous webmail is a pipe dream? 

Not. 

You need an anonymous webmail service to preserve your privacy and security.

Dada Mail is such a service, and it’s easy to set up.

  1. Go to Dada mail.com and click Sign Up for Free button
  2. Select your account type
  3. Type in your usernUsernamepassword, and you’re all set (you’ll need an invitation code for a free account).
  4. Click Create Account

And you’re all set to enjoy your anonymous webmail!

There are no extra steps to hide your phone number (Dada Mail doesn’t ask you for it) or your IP address (we don’t record, monitor, store, or log anything, including your IP).

It’s impossible to trace an outgoing email back to you as your email will show Dada mail’s IP and not yours.

But what if the government wants to see your emails?

Your emails are stored on dedicated servers in Iceland.

Why did we choose Iceland and not somewhere else? 

Because Iceland has the strictest privacy laws in the world. 

Iceland has no data retention laws for webmail. Once you delete an email, it doesn’t stay stored for six more months. It’s instantly deleted.

Furthermore, Iceland is also outside the 14-Eyes intelligence-gathering and surveillance coalition. 

The United States, for example, has something called the National Security Letter (NSL). NSL allows an agency like the FBI to see any information from any company at any moment, regardless of its privacy statement.

For instance, when Edward Snowden was using a service called Lavabit to contact his lawyers, the U.S. government waived this letter and could see not only Snowden’s metadata but also the private SSL keys of other Lavabit customers.

In other words, don’t expect digital privacy if your data is in a 14EY country.

Dada Mail’s Dedication to Transparency

Do we claim to be the best anonymous webmail? 

No. We know there’s still a long way to get there.

But we don’t bury our heads in the sand and ignore criticism. We have a Zero Censorship policy. We believe listening to users’ positive AND negative feedback is the only way to deliver an excellent webmail service.

Are you using our encrypted email? We would very much like to hear your opinion as well.

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