I used to use Protonmail, however the verification steps become tedious when creating unique emails for sign ups. I’ve switched to Tutanota despite it contravening their one account policy. What do you all use for one off emails (for sign ups etc )? Or do you prefer one of those 10 minute email sites?
If you’re paying for Proton, you have access to SimpleLogin, which lets you make unique addresses that will forward to your real address. You can even respond from those addresses.
There are several other services that do the same thing (e.g., AnonAddy).
Perhaps I haven’t used it to its full capacity but, I have a free proton account and I still have access to simple login
Thank you for sharing!
Yeah you get like 10. Which is still pretty useful if you manage them correctly. Like one for banking, one for gaming, random signups, etc
Create a different alias for everything using a service like:
- SimpleLogin
- Addy (AnonAddy)
- Firefox Relay
- Apple Hide My Email
+1 for simplelogin.
Cancelled proton unlimited since the majority of their platform is lacking features on Linux and switched to just a simplelogin subscription to pocket the savings.
Duckduckgo has an email redirect thing where you can make temporary addresses that forward to your normal one.
They offer integrated aliases via Proton Pass now.
Protonmail or Gmail.
Edit: but lately also Apple’s email obfuscation service tied to iCloud. But I’m an Apple platforms kinda guy.
mail.tm is pretty nice for this. It’s meant to be used as a throwaway email service, but you can also save the login credentials and reuse the email address if you need it more than one time.
I use forwarders on a domain I own that point to my primary acct.
I like guerrilla mail (short term email generation) but I’ve found that a lot of their domains are blocked by these sites I’m trying to sign up for >:(
How does protonmail make it tedious? I use ProtonPass and it creates a new email for me in one click and I dont pay for protonmail. Every newsletter or account i register uses a new email that are forwarded to my protonmail
You say you use ProtonPass with a free Proton account? Do you know if they have a limit for creating these new emails? I’ve seen ProtonPass advertised but I just assumed it was a premium feature. When I say its tedious, its because when I create new ProtonMail accounts you first have to verify it with another non-Proton account which I find a bit annoying as I dont use services like Gmail etc , but more importantly, Proton has been blocking signups on newly created emails (if you just created the email and then use it to verify a service sign up it gets blocked).
I’m not sure if there’s a limit, i hope not lol
For trash sites (random forums, free software downloads, porn etc.) that do not get my real information, and it doesn’t matter if I lose the account, I just use a random 10 minute email site.
For anything where I input my personal information, or deem slightly more important, I use a catch-all address in Protonmail with my own domain.
If you’re making a throwaway account or something not important you can use 10minutemail. It’s a website and is free. Been using it for a while.
I use Gmail as a trash account for easy logins and proton for the rest with Gmail forwarded to proton so I never have to open Gmail itself.
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I have an account with Tuta. I set it up to be able to use my own domain, so Ive created a few throwaway accts.
Courvix, but I think signups are disabled at the moment.
