

He has been covering tech news and reviewing devices since joining Android Police as a news writer in 2019. Manuel Vonau is Android Police's Google Editor, with expertise in Android, Chrome, and other Google products - the very core of Android Police’s content. You don't need to give out your email address at all then. If you need a temporary email address for some hotel or café Wi-Fi or for websites that require you to sign up before you can view content, you can also use a service like, which I recently discovered. Using of another sneaky filtering option, though many people use these interchangeably, so it's not a reliable method, either. In any case, once you introduce other people rather than just automated systems, the setup becomes more error-prone, so I'd recommend using it for newsletters, sign-ups, notifications, order confirmations, and other automated messages only.

The same goes for the plus variation, of course, though I'd hope that people would understand why you're asking them to send emails in this format.

Should you want to be less open about these rules, like when you communicate with friends or clients, you can just give out your email address with a different variation of dots sprinkled into it, like or Just keep in mind that some wise guys may know that they don't need to add dots and could omit them altogether, so this filtering method is more prone to error.
