Despite messaging apps and their widespread use, the truth is that email is still very important for many. Users around the world use it daily in both personal and more professional environments.
Perhaps one of the most widespread and preferred services of these characteristics is the one offered by Google and its Gmail. It is quite likely that most of you have at least one email account on this platform that you use both from your desktop computers and from your mobile. This is a service that over the years has been gaining importance and accumulating hundreds of millions of users.
The search giant is fully aware of the huge market penetration of its email platform, hence the features it adds almost constantly. In addition, it is important to take into account that a good part of these are focused on the security offered by Gmail, as is the case here. And surely many of you already know first-hand that one of the biggest problems with email is the SPAM messages that we receive all the time.
In this way, more often than we would like, our inbox is filled with spam emails that are a real nuisance in most cases. That is why Google is now integrating a new security feature to prevent the aforementioned SPAM to a large extent. Specifically, it is a new feature that is currently in full development and which Google calls Shielded Email.
This is the Shielded Email feature to avoid SPAM in Gmail
Basically, this new feature that they are developing is focused on the creation and use of a series of temporary email aliases that will allow us to get rid of annoying SPAM. To give us a better idea of how it works, the method is centered on the use of temporary email aliases so that our real address does not end up in the databases of companies that then send us SPAM as such.
This method will also help to increase Gmail security, as it also prevents online leaks that put our account at risk. Although the tool is currently in a testing period, everything suggests that this temporary alias will be created automatically when filling out forms with our personal email account.
The truth is that its automated operation is quite simple for all users. Once we have activated the new function, when filling in the corresponding authentication data in a new online form, Gmail will propose a temporary alias address. Of course, it will be directly related to the real email address, although, in this case, without exposing it to third parties. In addition, we will have the possibility of deactivating this alias that has been created at any time if we need to.
We could say that this new feature takes temporary email addresses, which have been with us for so long, to the next level.
