Brave, desktop browser Added email alias support with version 1.94. made available and allowed users to register on websites without giving their real e-mail addresses. The company is currently available to every user. five free email aliases It plans to provide more addresses to Brave Premium subscribers in the future. The browser directs messages arriving at the temporary addresses it creates directly to the user’s actual inbox. Thus, although Brave shares its Chromium base with Chrome, it adds a new layer on the privacy side that Google does not offer built into its browser.
To use the system, you first need to create a Brave Account with your e-mail address and password. Then, when you click on the email field on a website, Brave offers you the option to create a new nickname. If the browser does not show the suggestion, you can start the same process from the right-click menu. Brave places the random address it creates into the form and forwards the messages received to this address to the main e-mail address you have associated with your Brave Account. Addresses created by users Settings > Autofill & Passwords > Email Aliases They can manage, add notes or delete nicknames they no longer want.
The main benefit of email aliasing should not be considered only as spam blocking. Websites can use this address as a strong identifier when you use the same e-mail address in different services, and advertising and data companies can match records from different sources with the same user. You make this matching difficult when you give a different email address to each site, and not a single service with a data leak directly reveals your primary email address. When unwanted messages start coming to a particular alias, you can close that address and continue on your way without changing your main account.
Brave states that to protect privacy during the forwarding process, it does not record the content of emails and only performs standard spam and virus checks. The company uses AWS in its Email Aliases infrastructure and applies encryption when storing messages, and deletes the limited log records it keeps for delivery and debugging purposes within 14 days at the latest. Brave also stores alias notes on your device, and if you use Brave Sync, it transfers these notes between devices with end-to-end encryption. In fact, the new Brave Accounts infrastructure maintains the same privacy approach, the company says that thanks to the OPAQUE protocol, your account password never sends itself to its servers.
Where does Brave differ from its competitors?
Brave gains a new advantage over Chrome with this move, but it’s not the first time it’s brought the idea of email masking to the browser world. With Hide My Email, offered to iCloud+ subscribers, Apple allows you to create a random address and forward incoming messages to your real address when you tap an email field in Safari. Mozilla is also integrating Firefox Relay directly into the Firefox password manager, users can create a Relay mask in the email field and sign up for a free account. Up to 50 email masks can use it. Therefore, we see the real difference of Brave in that it directly connects this system to its own browser, Brave Account infrastructure and existing privacy tools.
On the Chrome side, Google is working on email domains and verification processes, but a built-in email alias system that hides the real address like Brave offers is not yet among Chrome’s standard features. So Brave’s innovation makes a tangible difference, especially for users considering switching from Chrome, but those using Safari and Firefox already have access to similar privacy tools. The fact that Brave starts with five addresses in the free tier is also an important limitation, since Firefox Relay provides a higher quota in the free tier. Brave 1.94 The innovation that comes with , however, shows that the browser goes beyond blocking ads and tracking and moves towards protecting identity information.
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