At a glance
DuckDuckGo Email Protection is a single forwarding address with tracker-stripping bolted on. You get one @duck.com and everything forwards to your real inbox. No aliases per site, no dashboard, no pause, no history.
emailforward.xyz is an actual alias service: a random address per signup, up to six recipients each, pause-without-deleting, full history per alias, Telegram delivery DDG has never shipped, and tracker stripping on every forward by default.
Feature comparison
| Feature | emailforward.xyz | DuckDuckGo Email Protection |
|---|---|---|
| Random per-site aliases DDG gives you one duck.com address, not per-signup aliases. | ||
| Telegram delivery | ||
| Multiple recipients per alias | Up to 6 | |
| Pause an alias without deleting | ||
| Per-alias history in the web app | ||
| Tracker removal Both strip common email tracking pixels and tracking query params from forwarded mail. | ||
| Two-way reply | ||
| Account required | ||
| Custom domain | ||
| Public REST API |
Pricing · emailforward.xyz
Free. No account, no caps. Unlimited aliases, 6 recipients each.
Pricing · DuckDuckGo Email Protection
Free. Requires a DuckDuckGo account. Single duck.com address, no per-site aliases.
Privacy · emailforward.xyz
No account means nothing to correlate. Alias data is deleted when the alias is deleted. TLS end to end, EU-operated, GDPR-aligned. We strip common email tracking pixels and tracking query params from every forwarded message, on by default.
Privacy · DuckDuckGo Email Protection
DuckDuckGo's brand is privacy. Their free tier is ad-supported search; Email Protection is a trust leader, with a public privacy policy and active tracker stripping.
Choose emailforward.xyz if…
- You want a fresh alias per site, not one catch-all duck.com.
- You want Telegram delivery in addition to (or instead of) email.
- You want to pause or delete a specific alias without losing the others.
- You route each alias to multiple inboxes.
- You don't want to be locked into a DuckDuckGo account.
Choose DuckDuckGo Email Protection if…
- You want DuckDuckGo's full browser + search + email privacy stack in a single account.
Verdict
DDG Email Protection is a tracker filter wearing an alias service costume. Once we added tracker stripping, the only thing left to prefer about them is the DuckDuckGo brand integration. Everything a real alias service does — per-site addresses, pause, history, multi-recipient, Telegram delivery, tracker removal — is now on our side.
Use DDG if you're already living in their browser and want one ecosystem. Otherwise, emailforward.xyz does the same privacy job with a lot more alias mileage.
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No signup, free forever, Telegram delivery out of the box.