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Kim Komando Daily Tech Update

Create email aliases

01 Feb 2026

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Chapter 1: What is the main topic discussed in this episode?

0.031 - 1.434 Kim Komando

Hi, Kim Commando here.

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Chapter 2: What digital life hack can help protect my email privacy?

1.754 - 21.313 Kim Komando

Well, first up, we have your digital life hack. And after that, I'm going to play a call for my weekend national radio show. Every time you sign up for something online, you hand over your email address. Newsletter here, coupon there, free trial you forgot about. Then your inbox fills with junk and you wonder who sold you out. Here's the fix.

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Chapter 3: How can I identify who is leaking my email information?

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Email aliases. I'm Kim Commando for Consumer Cellular. If you're over 50, get two lines for just $30 each line. Switch today and get your second month free at ConsumerCellular.com slash Kim. Instead of giving out your real email address, you create a fake one that forwards to your inbox. If that address starts getting spammed, you kill it. Done.

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Apple folks, it's called Hide My Email, built into iCloud Plus for 99 cents a month. Head to Settings, tap your name, iCloud, and then hide my email. Gmail users, add a plus sign after your name. So if you're john at gmail.com, sign up as john plus netflix at gmail.com. It all goes straight to your inbox, but now you know exactly who sold you out. Then you can set up a filter to trash it all.

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Get my free five-star rated newsletter right now.

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Chapter 4: What are email aliases and how do they work?

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Sign up at getkim.com. Next up, a call from my weekend show, The Kim Commando Show. Enjoy! And how about we have Dana in Springfield, Missouri, here on the show with us. Hi there, Dana. Hi there. How nice to talk with you today. Oh, thank you. See how nice she is, Andrew. You shouldn't be talking to me like that. You have enough nice people in your life. You also need me, the yin and the yang.

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He's always so mean. So mean. So I apologize for him in advance, Dana. I'll be nice to Dana. Oh, nice. Okay, here we go. So what's on your mind today?

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Chapter 5: How can Apple users utilize 'Hide My Email' feature?

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Well, I'm putting the finishing touches on planning a trip in about seven weeks with my four grandchildren. And while they're wonderfully mature and almost grown-up acting, I am concerned about parts of the trip that I'd like to make a little bit safer. We're going to go to one of the biggest cities in the Northeast and have We're going to be in crowded airports.

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New York? Are you going to New York?

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Look at you. Yes, I am. And we're going to be seeing tourist stuff.

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Chapter 6: What strategies can Gmail users implement for email privacy?

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We're going to be in crowds. How old are the kids?

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How old are they?

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Well, the twin boys are 17 and the twin girls are 23.

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Okay, let me tell you where you need to take them. Okay. Okay. You need to take him to the Tenement Housing Museum.

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Okay.

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Okay. The Tenement Housing Museum. It is phenomenal.

Chapter 7: How can I filter spam emails effectively?

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And how I found it is that my son was 16 and I said, what do I do in New York with a 16 year old? And it said, take him to the Tenement Housing Museum. And so what happens is like way back in the 1800s, that you'd have these three and four story buildings, skinny buildings, and there'd be like maybe one toilet for all four floors.

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And so you'd have like somebody who just got off the boat from, you know, maybe Ireland and Italy. And so you had all these different cultures living in these tenement housing. And they tell you the stories behind the people that actually lived there and you get to see how they lived.

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and and one story in particular i'll never forget is that there was this woman who came over from ireland and she was in and we're talking like maybe 200 square foot apartments that they lived in and with maybe maybe just one little sink that's all it was and and so she's there and she's cleaning houses on the upper east side near central park And she has probably four kids under the age of six.

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And so she's cleaning houses, taking the subway up, coming back, and she's having the neighbors take care of the kids because she can't take care of them. Her husband's drunk. And so in order to make extra money, she's sewing clothes, not only for her children, but for other kids in the tenement housing. And so this is a rough life, right? Absolutely, yeah. Okay.

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And so the husband goes out for a cocktail, beer, whatever. He never comes back. So now he's left her. And now she's, you know, her life is still struggling along. The kids are getting to be like probably six, six to like 12-ish, 11-ish. And she gets a call, a telegram. It says, are you so-and-so? We need you to come down to the New York City office because we have news about your husband.

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So she goes down to the office, whatever it was in New York City, the immigration office. And they said, was this your husband's name? And she says, yes. And she said, but he abandoned me. I haven't seen him for years. I don't know anything about him. I don't know where he went. And so if he did something, I don't have any knowledge of it. They said, no, he passed away.

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He passed away in California. And when he was in California, he bought a whole bunch of land. And because he died, we're going to give you the land. It was a million dollars. Oh, my word. In like 1920. And so she grabbed all the kids. Remember those apartments she was cleaning up on the Upper West Side, Upper East Side? She bought one.

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And those four kids, those four kids, they went to Harvard and Princeton because they were then able to do that. Anyway, total tangent.

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What about the kids? No, I totally understand. And the immigrant story is just amazing. And I just can't imagine what it would be like.

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