Just like social security numbers, passport information, and other information that can be used to identify you, your email is PII - personally identifiable information.
Yet many services pretend like it isn’t.
The best way to protect your identity online is to use a #SimpleLogin alias whenever you’re asked to share your email address.
@simplelogin hi, me again with questions about the Safari extension. Why is your extension not available in the UK App Store? and can I just download it from what ever source so I can finally use SimpleLogin in Safari without the very crappy port of the iPad app to macOS, please. #proton#simplelogin
I just discovered #SimpleLogin a product of @protonmail
It's a powerfull and amazing tool to protect your email addresses.
Easy to manage from Pass or from dashboard on simplelogin.io #Privacy#Proton#Pass
Is anyone else having trouble using @simplelogin email aliases with @github. I'm getting an error saying 'email domain could not be verified.' Can't seem to make it work for my account. Is anyone else facing this issue? cc: @protonmail
On me prend pour un fou quand je dis que j'ai un mail par usage, soit aujourd'hui 450 adresses différentes, qui sont autant d'alias. Le piratage des données des mutuelles montre que j'ai raison. Seul truc à faire : changer l'adresse mail et le mot de passe de ma mutuelle, rien de plus. Pas la peine de le faire sur les 450 sites où j'ai des comptes. Du coup, c'est qui le malade ? hein ?
@wongmjane#ProtonMail has absolutely stellar #spam filtering, so I’m not too nervous about posting my #email address publicly. Besides, I’ve had the same address since 1997—it’s well-circulated by now.
However, when I sign up for a new account or otherwise have to provide an address to someplace new, I use forwarding aliases from Proton’s #SimpleLogin service. That way I can filter and/or cut off any abuse.
Email aliases for compartmentalizing accounts, privacy or whatever your reason.
How many people are using it? Is it so much of a pain that people won't use it?
I think Apple's HideMyEmail is a good example of email aliasing hitting what I would consider mainstream, albeit a limited experience compared to the offerings SimpleLogin or AnonAddy.
I know Firefox Relay and DuckDuckGo have their own offering as well, but they seem limited much like Apple's HideMyEmail.
I'll throw a few questions out there.
Do you use email aliases?
What's your service of choice?
Do you use them for everything?
Do you use your own domain?
I don't see it discussed as much as I thought I would. Especially when you see so much reported in terms of leaked/breached data.
@simplelogin I have a question - I have signed up for a lot of things using my email over many years, and generally don't have a lot of stuff I sign up for now.
How would you recommend me getting started with #simplelogin ? In my perspective, I think this is a great tool if you start your digital footprint early, but if it is late how should one go about it?
Its forwarding feature allows for multiple emails (that I so far haven't seen elsewhere). I took advantage of this and set up to have emails I receive from my #SimpleLogin email to be forwarded to my Zoho Mail, Proton Mail, and Google Mail accounts.
This allows me to have a backup of the emails I received in case I can no longer access one email account (for whatever reason), or I [accidentally] deleted the email and emptied my trash, only to find out later I need it again.
It requires some discipline, too. I regularly check each email account and review the emails.
Since the public-facing email address is a SimpleLogin email, I can also reply or send an email from any of the three accounts I am using, with no problems at all (a very rare feature in disposable email services).
This is good. For example, if I am at work where mobile gadgets are not allowed, and they blocked Gmail or Protonmail or Zoho Mail, and I need to send a quick email, at least one of those email services is guaranteed to not be blocked (usually it's only Gmail).
@simplelogin Very tempted! For my understanding, with a custom domain brought to #simplelogin , am I then able to use you as a "mail service" (and stop paying for a priced mail plan elsewhere)?
Also, if the above is true, do you support email rules (for example auto-forward)?