How to subscribe to newsletters without using your personal email

• Your personal email stays personal. Fewer senders know it.
• Newsletters get read. In a shared inbox they compete with everything urgent and usually lose.
• You stay in charge. A separate address makes it obvious who you gave it to.

Create a free account just for newsletters. It works, but you now have another inbox to check, another password, and newsletters are still shown as email, between promotional messages and notifications.

Some providers let you add a suffix to your address, or create aliases that forward to it. Combined with filters, newsletters can skip your main inbox. It takes setting up, and the newsletters still live inside your email app.

A newsletter app such as Stakker gives you an address of your own the moment you sign in. You subscribe with it, and editions arrive in a stack made for reading instead of in your email. Stakker never reads your personal email and never asks for access to it. Senders you did not subscribe to wait until you say yes.

1. Download Stakker and sign in with Apple or Google.
2. Your Stakker address is ready straight away. It never changes.
3. Subscribe from Discover in a tap, or type your Stakker address into the publisher’s own form. Browse the catalogue for ideas.
4. For newsletters you already get, subscribe again with the new address, then stop the old subscription with the publisher if you no longer want it in your email.