So, let’s say you created a ProtonMail account entirely on your Tor Browser through the Tor mirror the entire time and then also signed up to SimpleLogin/AnonAddy to have an e-mail alias/cloak for each account that you have (for example, say you have make an Reddit account and you go and create an alias for the Reddit account and that alias will be used ONLY for that account and nothing else)

Would it be a bad idea to make aliases and use them for stuff tied to your personal identity (such as banks or stuff you’ve previously used payment options tied to your name etc) or it wouldn’t matter?

  • Ocelot@lemmies.worldEnglish
    10·
    1 year ago

    I do this pretty much everywhere, but mainly for 2 reasons:

    • If I close the account and never want to hear from them again, filter out the alias
    • If I receive junk mail to that address, I know where it was leaked from

    I do this by a catch-all on my own personal domain, so anything@mydomain.com will get sent to my inbox. I generate random strings/words/names for every email.

    • GregoryTheGreat@programming.devEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      I do this with Protonmail and my only word of warning is migrating this setup isn’t possible with many other services. I tried to migrate to o365 and the setup is silly. I gave up and still use proton.