Your email address has become a digital bread crumb for companies to link your activity across sites. Here’s how you can limit this. By Brian X. Chen Brian X. Chen is the lead consumer technology ...

Although Gmail allows users to sign up for multiple accounts, there's an easier way to have several unique email addresses. By using special characters, such as a period or plus sign, you can modify ...

Google ignores the periods in your email address. That means johnsmith@gmail.com and john.smith@gmail.com are the same email address. You can use this trick to filter out spammers and companies that ...