New Brave Nightly teaser points to an Email Aliases feature in development

Brave Nightly posted a teaser on X, pointing to an Email Aliases feature in development. The post points users to brave://flags for a first look, and it reveals active work on built-in email privacy tools.

Brave developers have built native email aliases straight into the browser, and users can soon create unique addresses without any extensions or third-party services. These aliases will forward emails to the primary inbox, but keep signups fully anonymous. This is similar to the popular “Hide my email” feature that Apple offers.

This experimental flag currently appears only in Brave Nightly builds, and testers can find it. Just toggle the setting to turn it on, and an in-page bubble pops up for email input fields. One click generates a fresh alias address that you can use.

Since the service will receive this temporary email instead of your real email, users have a lot more control. The forwarding still routes everything to the main account. Brave markets itself as a privacy-centric browser, and this elimination of cross-site tracking is a good addition.

This new feature addresses a privacy concern that many people have, and it protects against data breaches. Users can kill a spammy alias instantly, and this cuts the problem right at the source. Your main email stays clean. It’ll work across Mac, Windows, Linux, ChromeOS, and Android, as mentioned in the description of the feature.

Some users have questions on how verification and 2FA would be handled, and Brave has yet to respond. A Brave employee also confirmed on X that the overall UX of the feature is still under development, and it’s still experimental.

Brave didn’t announce a release date for this feature, but we can expect it soon since the information comes directly from the company’s social media handles.