I know it’s a long shot, but I had about five proton accounts that have just been shut down for violating there account number TOS. And I was just wondering if there were any mail providers for free that have no limits and are decent on the privacy front? Thanks in advance for any help!

  • basiclemmon98@lemmy.dbzer0.comOP
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    9 days ago

    I was trying to make sure that if one got breached for any reason, only some of my non email accounts were compromised. I’m not sure if that’s overkill though.

    • Novaling@lemmy.zipEnglish
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      9 days ago

      Breached as in the Proton email getting breached, or as in Simplelogin/anonaddy getting breached?

      If it’s the former, email aliases are your best bet, as you can easily change who they forward to, so if your main email got breached somehow it could be changed quickly. Plus using aliases lessens the risk of hackers knowing about your actual email anyway. The aliases are meant to be meat shields/masks for your real email when a company gets breached/sells your data.

      Now, if we’re talking the alias provider getting breached, then it becomes a who do you trust more issue. Proton owns simplelogin, and has performed well in audits, so I’d say for now they’re safe to trust security-wise. Anonaddy has a page listing the security methods they use and passed an audit in 2023, but you could self host it if you want to.

      I’m feeling like multiple Proton emails is overkill. You would be biting the bullet anyway by having an email get breached, so I’d save the hassle (for Proton too) and just use an alias service.