Privacy browser Brave has added Email Aliases, allowing users to register for websites and online services without disclosing their primary email addresses. Users first create a Brave account with their real email address, then can generate an alias from a pop-up that appears when they select an email field in the browser, or through the field’s right-click menu. Messages sent to the alias are forwarded to the primary account. Brave says the feature reduces the use of email addresses as identifiers for advertising, cross-site tracking and data-broker activity, while limiting the damage from breaches at websites that collect users’ addresses. Brave says it does not read alias-mail content, processing messages only for spam and virus filtering before deleting them from its servers. Brave account data is encrypted at rest; alias notes are stored locally unless synchronization is enabled, in which case they receive end-to-end encryption. Users currently receive five free aliases, with more planned for Premium subscribers. Brave cautions that some forwarded messages may initially land in spam folders as its reputation as a mail provider develops. The accounts use OPAQUE authentication, which keeps passwords on users’ devices and does not transmit them during verification, although it does not protect against phishing.