I’m trying to migrate off gmail and apple services and ended up getting a domain and going to proton and using simplelogin for making aliases. But now I’m looking at proton pass, which comes free with my plan and lets me create aliases and wondering why I did that.
Ideally, I want nobody to have my main email address. everything gets an alias and dumps into the main. if the main address is found out, I just kill it and get another and point all the aliases to that. if an alias gets spammy or sold off to obnoxious marketing boobs, I kill the alias and create a new one.
I got started with migrating a few things over today into the aliases I had on my domain with simplelogin. I started to wonder what would happen if I replied to any of these and unlike apple hide-my-mail, it looks like these expose my actual address, unless I go through the trouble of going to simplelogin and getting an reverse alias link through them, which is an annoying pain in the ass. looking to see if there was any integration like apple’s icloud had, I find proton pass is included in my mail plus plan and lets me do what simplelogin already was doing, complete with my domain being in the alias address!
So my question is why did I set up two seperate services for this? can I reply to incoming emails from the aliases created in proton pass without them revealing my address?
I have needed to get away from google for a while and am finally getting off my ass to do it, but apple hide my email was so simple to use whereas proton seems to have these weird oversights.
Check out DuckDuckGo, they also have an email alias forwarding system like SimpleLogin. I have a different email address/alias for each account that I have and they all end up in my Proton inbox. Also, you’re able to reply and send email with the DuckDuckGo address from Proton mail.
@Corduroy_Pillows_Making_Headlines Created a Post/Group about how to De-Google. The details about my set-up is also there. Hope it helps:
https://lemmy.myserv.one/post/19040195
Can you have multiple duck adresses at the same time?
Yes, you can have multiple duck addresses at the same time. There’s a personal and private duck address.
Composing email: https://duckduckgo.com/duckduckgo-help-pages/email-protection/duck-addresses/how-do-i-compose-a-new-email
About duck addresses: https://duckduckgo.com/duckduckgo-help-pages/email-protection/duck-addresses/can-i-create-multiple-custom-duck-addresses
I also used SimpleLogin and loved it until I subscribed to the Proton products. Like you, I haven’t needed to use SimpleLogin because of Proton Pass. Haven’t used iCloud since 2021 and have no regrets.
There’s no reason to sign up for DuckDuckGo’s service, since OP already uses Proton (which owns SimpleLogin). It would just be unnecessarily increasing their footprint.
Ahh, apologies then. I thought OP wanted to de-google. I use DuckDuckGo because of their duck player; it opens YouTube on a separate window without all the extra stuff you don’t want (just the video you wanted to see). I guess OP can use PeerTube? I’m quite happy with my Proton Unlimited but it’s not for everyone. And yeah, I’m a browser hopper.