The autocomplete functions that more and more browsers incorporate make the registration process for a new website or platform that we want to use easier. Thus, the browser automatically enters data such as our name or the email address that we usually use, and it also saves us from having to think about a password by suggesting one.
This is great to save time, but there are several cases in which we should invest some time when registering on a page. In what cases? Well, in those in which we do not want to share too much data with the website, either to protect our privacy, or because we fear that the website is not secure and that it could use our data for illicit purposes or scams.
In this context, we can use various online tools that provide us with everything necessary to register without revealing our true identity. Of course, it will take some time, but it is worth it to protect our real email from spam, for example, or to prevent our name and telephone number from ending up in a data leak on the deep web.
Tools to create fake emails, phones or names
There are several pieces of information that we are always asked for when registering on a platform: name, date of birth, email or mobile phone, among others. In addition, it is very possible that they carry out a verification by sending an email or SMS with a code, to verify that said email is really ours.
One option is to create what some call “dirty email”, which is nothing more than an address that we have created exclusively for the purpose of using it to register on websites that we do not want to know anything about, preventing their spam emails from reaching us. to our usual or professional email.
However, another even better method due to the greater degree of anonymity it allows is to use temporary email creation tools. As several experts list for Maldita.es, some suitable apps for this purpose are Temp Mail, Temp-Mail or disposable temporary email. Likewise, if we have to provide a mobile phone number and they are going to ask us to confirm it, we can use Quackr.io or SMS Tome to be able to check the SMS received on this virtual phone number that these websites offer us.
Of course, we must keep in mind that the SMS we receive in these services may be public, so we must make sure that they will not include any personal data along with the verification code.
Likewise, we can use apps like Crumbs or Fake Name Generator to generate fake names, saving us the time it would take to invent a first name, last name or alias each time.
Apps to hide data from our team
Websites and platforms try to capture all possible data about us, and that includes knowing the type of device we are using. To avoid giving information about our operating system, mobile terminal, type of PC or configurations (which can also be valuable information and capable of giving us away) there are other apps or browser extensions that serve to hide it.
The examples that Maldita.es offers in this sense are the Privacy Badger extension, with which we automatically delete cookies, or the User Agent Switcher and Manager extension, which camouflages our browser by pretending to be another, and also simulates a computer other than the one we are using. we are actually using. We cannot forget the possibility of using a VPN, to camouflage our real physical address and other data.
