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So how is this different from something like Mailinator.com? In my opinion, I can't see a use case in which I'd care enough to have my temporary email private. If I cared enough I'd just use my real email.

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If I had to guess, requiring that each email address be tied to an individual person would allow NBox to stay off "temporary email address" blacklists. It's a privacy service essentially, not an anonymity service. Same reason why credit card masking services are legal, but Visa/MC/etc wouldn't allow a mass-shared CC number.

But a throwaway gmail account works the same yes?

Hi alkonaut, yes it works the same, but it might end up piling up.

Gmail accounts sometimes require you to give a phone number in order to register a new account. Not to mention creating a new email address with this looks way easier than signing up for another Gmail account.

It will not keep NBox off blacklists. I've been using sneakemail for this for like fifteen years (and they do not offer a free service), and I've run into a number of sites that ban their domains anyway. Adafruit, for example, bans their domains.

Hi jswny, jacobwg is right, the addresses are private (and anonymous because we don't ask any information).

I'd say the use case is to filter "semi-wanted" emails.

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