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If not, don't worry. We're going to repeat it, as well as add some additional detail.

If you want to say hello, ask a question, or if you want to tell BJ that you own a Wonder Woman costume, we can be reached at stupidsexyprivacy[at]duck[dot]com

But don't email us just yet. Keep reading.

This way, if you get nothing else from us, you're going to at least have a free, fully encrypted email account and a free way to disguise that new email account's address when needed.

Before emailing us, we're going to ask you take the following steps:

What's the benefit of doing this?

Your Proton Mail account is encrypted from your phone, for example, before it even gets to the good people at Proton Mail.
If there's a court order to access your account, nobody at Proton Mail can view your emails.*
Proton Mail is not based in the United States. We do not recommend using any email service providers based in America at this time.
If you email us from your new account, it can't be viewed by a third party, because we use Proton Mail too. If someone were to ever access your account, all they would get is encrypted data that's useless to them.
If you email someone from your new Proton Mail account who does NOT use Proton Mail, you can still send them a fully encrypted email by following these directions.
DuckDuckGo's email forwarding service removes trackers from most marketing emails. These trackers are a BIG problem for reasons we'll explain elsewhere. I asked DuckDuckGo to explain what happens to an email that they receive: "When we recieve an email to a duck.com address, we immediately remove trackers then forward it to its destination. This all happens in memory; your emails are never written to disk.”
DuckDuckGo's email forwarding service gives you a "cover" email to provide, so you don't have to give out your real email address. Much like your real phone number, you should rarely give out your real email address. Use the @ Duck email whenever you have to sign up for something. Use your @ Duck address when giving out your email address. Exceptions: If you know that the person you're emailing is using Proton Mail you can give them your actual email address.
If you want to upgrade to a paid Proton Mail plan, you can do so using Bitcoin. We do not like, or recommend, any cryptocurrencies. Crypto is a scam. But this feature is important to some people, so we wanted to mention it here.***
If you want to use a custom domain with an upgraded Proton Mail account, it is easy to set one up. We'll talk about this a lot later.
Proton Mail provides the results of internal audits of their services from trusted third parties. So you know it's safe to use. Here's one recent example. DuckDuckGo also provides a lot of information about how their @ duck email works here if you want to learn more.

Just to Let You Know

*There are always going to be exceptions. If you want complete and total privacy, anonymity, and data security, don't use the Internet. Proton Mail is the MOST secure, and MOST customer friendly, of all your available options.

** Proton Mail does not encrypt the email addresses themselves or your subject lines. This is one of the reasons we recommend using the @ Duck email. It makes for a great disguise for your actual email address. If you email someone from your Proton Mail account, and they do NOT use Proton Mail, then those emails are also not encrypted unless you follow these directions.

*** If you are based in the United States, and want to send money overseas to a company like Proton Mail, Bitcoin is a way to do that. But again, we don't like crypto. We suggest you use Privacy.com instead to make this and other purchases electronically.

This may sound easy to people super into this stuff, but those people aren't our audience.

The average person wanting to better protect themselves from fascists and weirdos is our audience.

If you think TuTu is better than Proton Mail, and I know some of you do, you're welcome here. But. You're also way ahead of where everyone else is.

Our job is to bring them up to speed. Proton Mail is the best solution to do that.

All Set?

You can reach us at stupidsexyprivacy[at]duck[dot]com