Decoy · Disposable Identities

A new identity for every account. Disposable identities so companies never get your real data.

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[Decoy · Disposable Identities @decoysdotme]

gym required a certified letter sent to an address in delaware just to cancel a $29 monthly fee.

instead of finding a post office, i deleted the virtual card from decoy and let their billing retry fail until they gave up.

[Decoy · Disposable Identities @decoysdotme]

my real inbox: 3 emails. my decoy inboxes: 847.

every retail newsletter, abandoned cart nudge, and tracking pixel is currently throwing a party in a digital dead end.

phone hasn't buzzed once.

[Decoy · Disposable Identities @decoysdotme]

switching search engines saves your queries, but the second you hit checkout with your real email and card, 10 data brokers link your identity anyway.

privacy stacks need an input layer. disposable emails and virtual cards right at the form before the leak happens. that’s why I built decoy

[Decoy · Disposable Identities @decoysdotme]

@GregSalazarYT Sure they “monetized” less back in the day, but the business model has always been ads

[Decoy · Disposable Identities @decoysdotme]

downloaded a 3-page PDF guide in 2021.

four years later that company got bought, and their new marketing team just sent me email #48 from an automated sales sequence i never agreed to.

[Decoy · Disposable Identities @decoysdotme]

spent months building and testing an app so i'd never have to hand a food delivery site, airport WiFi or random newsletter my real inbox again.

decoy is live on the App Store, Chrome Web Store, and Firefox Add-ons this week!

disposable emails, phone numbers and burner cards (soon) and passkeys everywhere you type. let the spam go to the void.

[Decoy · Disposable Identities @decoysdotme]

@wanglisec If you want to limit what data brokers have on you…..

Try giving sites a unique decoy addresses- turns those breach dumps into useless noise

[Decoy · Disposable Identities @decoysdotme]

@vxynch $ down the drain

i started using virtual cards set with a limit just so the renewal silently bounces

[Decoy · Disposable Identities @decoysdotme]

@Techjunkie_Aman @brave I love Brave but 5 free aliases before a paywall isn't ideal, plus locking aliases to one browser limits you.

built decoy across iOS, Chrome, and Firefox so you generate disposable emails anywhere without switching your daily setup.

[Decoy · Disposable Identities @decoysdotme]

apple's ATT proved it. give people one tap to say "don't track me" and 80% say no.

people always cared about privacy. they just couldn't act on it without switching to linux and running a VPN 24/7.

decoy makes the private option the easy option.

[Decoy · Disposable Identities @decoysdotme]

@gnukeith the "something to hide" framing was always backwards. privacy is about the right to know what's being collected about you and the right to say no. the fact that wanting that makes you a criminal tells you a lot about who benefits from the current setup.

[Decoy · Disposable Identities @decoysdotme]

@gnukeith the advertiser part is what gets me. data brokers make $200+ billion a year selling your email patterns, location, purchase history. flock at least has a camera you can see. advertisers built an invisible version of that years ago and most still don’t know

[Decoy · Disposable Identities @decoysdotme]

@MarkyMark_XL @manairport "includes" is doing a LOT of heavy lifting in that email. you deserve a complete list of every data field that was exposed, not a vague summary that lets them downplay it later.

[Decoy · Disposable Identities @decoysdotme]

@fatih the pitch "let AI read your messages and manage your life.” is not a great idea

there's zero transparency on what it does with that data and no way to revoke the knowledge once AI has learned it. you can revoke access to your inbox tomorrow. the info was already given away.

[Decoy · Disposable Identities @decoysdotme]

@adliblove @brave hmm.... brave extension next?

[Decoy · Disposable Identities @decoysdotme]

firefox users don't end up on firefox by accident.

they chose it because they actually read what chrome does with their data.

felt wrong not to ship there right away. firefox extension is now live!

[Decoy · Disposable Identities @decoysdotme]

https://t.co/r3UC6ogr6S

[Decoy · Disposable Identities @decoysdotme]

9.25 million people handed a food delivery app their real email and home address. now both are in a free SQL dump. if even a fraction of those used disposable emails, the dump is just noise.