As part of my day job, I often check out online tools to see if they’re any good. This means that I’ve signed up to a vast array of services which then kindly email about their latest updates.
Unfortunately, I’m often not that interested in follow up emails and announcements. And while it’s true that you can remove yourself from a mailing list, and usually quite easily, some services make it a little bit harder.
Even putting all this to one side, I’d prefer not to share my personal details with a site that I don’t yet trust.
This is where 10 Minute Mail comes in. 10 Minute Mail is a very useful tool which allows you to create an email account which then becomes redundant in 600 seconds. If you need to extend the accounts life by a further ten minutes then you have that option too.
Thankfully there’s nothing ironic about this service, so you don’t need to sign up to it via an existing account.
It’s a handy way of signing up to an online service whilst not committing yourself to a deluge of updates, newsletters, and ‘here’s something you might find interesting!’s.
So, the next time a website unjustifiably makes you commit a working email address for their later bombardment, just give them a temporary one.
Try out 10 Minute Mail here.
You may also like bugmenot a service that keeps track of free email registrations for sites that require a log-on, next time you visit NewYorkTimes.com and need a registration to read a post you can quickly find a working email address and password on Bugmenot website or via their bookmarklet — very handy.
