And what do you actually use? I know the answer is probably self-hosting but maybe there are other solutions for a decent privacy.
And what do you actually use? I know the answer is probably self-hosting but maybe there are other solutions for a decent privacy.
A privacy email provider and email aliases for everything you sign up for.
Email Providers
Protonmail
Tutanota
Email Alias Providers
Simplelogin
addy
Proton pass does e-mail aliases if you pay up for the high tier subscription
Which is through SimpleLogin, which Proton bought.
Cool, didn’t know that!
Theres plenty of good reason to keep your alias provider separate from your email provider.
The first being you can lift and shift to another email provider very easily.
Secondly if something happens to your account you don’t lose the lot.
Thirdly, just get a domain with alias provider and it matters not what email provider you use ever.
All alias providers I have seen (including SimpleLogin) allow arbitrary target/“backing” mailboxes.
Personal domains are nice for “important stuff” that should be tied to your real person.
One of the features of mail aliasing services is it to provide pseudonymity which you cannot achieve if the domain literally contains your real name.
I have a pseudo domain that has none of my info on it.
It’s something along the lines of “thisisspam.com” that forwards to my personal email accounts.
The point is, since I and not the service control my addresses I can take them anywhere.
Problem is that this domain (whether it includes your real name or not) is still related to your person as you are the sole user.
If you created accounts at Google, Amazon and Facebook using a schema of
servicename@thisspam.com, don’t you think they’d be able to tell it’s the same person who created those accounts?With the likes of
google.quothfaaoa@aliassingservice.com,amazon.qwrlaklfas9@aliassingservice.comandfacebook.1afglasdah@aliassingservice.com, that identification vector is simply ruled out.This is going to be controversial, but if I was a user of these three scummy sites what you say above isn’t the hill I’m willing to die on or care about.
However I have half a dozen domains, I could quite easily add one or two more for dumb shit like this if I wanted to.
They do but it’s a limited kind of alias. You can’t set up reverse-aliases (you send first) for example which the regular SimpleLogin can.
But its though SimpleLogin, not ProtonMail itself.
There is also Firefox relay which gives you 5 email aliases. I have found that some services such as discord do not accept addy or simplelogin domains but they accept firefox relay domain which is mozmail.com if I am not mistaken
I am new to the alias world so I’ve a question. How can I be sure that an alias provider doesn’t have access to my emails when they are forwarded?
Unfortunately there is no way, it requires trust. Just like you need to trust your email provider to not have access to your emails.
A point can be made here for email providers that also provide aliasing services such as Protonmail/SimpleLogin: Since they’re the same entity, using an aliasing service requires no additional trust.
True but I believe SimpleLogin is based in France while Protonmail is based in Switzerland. Two seperate governments.
Indeed, interesting