Gmail prepares a function that allows you to create email aliases to sign up for services and apps

Nov. 15 (Portaltic/EP) –

Google is working on a feature for Gmail that will allow users to create email aliases to sign up for services and applications, which keeps their contact information private and protects them from ‘spam’, a feature similar to ‘Hide my email’ from Apple.

This functionality is called ‘Shielded Email’ (translated as ‘Armored Mail’), as has been seen in the APK of the most recent version of the application (24.45.33) from Google Play Services, which contains several lines of code in which reference is made to an option identified as ‘Protected email’.

With this feature, it is offered as a system that allows you to create a single-use or limited-use email alias, which in turn forwards the messages received to this alleged email account to the main one, as you have warned. Android Authority recently.

In this way, ‘spam’ would be avoided and would strengthen the security of user accounts, by reducing the risk that users’ online activities can be tracked or mitigating personal risks from possible future data breaches.

Google is therefore working on a feature similar to ‘Hide my email’ from Apple, which allows you to generate a unique and random email address and is designed so that the real address does not have to be shared when filling out forms in applications or subscribing to internet newsletters.