My grievances with Proton

I don’t agree with the post or the replies from OP here at all, to me it just reeks of entitlement. * You subscribe to a Proton premium plan to gain access to a feature you want, in this case email aliases beyond the free tier. * You decide you can’t / don’t want / don’t need to pay for it anymore, thus losing access to this feature. * You somehow try to coin it into an argument of corporate greed and ransom, saying things like: > Which is to say that Proton will essentially hold your online accounts for a ransom, from my perspective. or: > It costs nothing to the provider to maintain aliases. Not any additional concrete cost over the cost of providing a free service. Perhaps an imaginary cost – a very “ungrounded” one. ..which is “ungrounded” from my perspective. Just because you believe there’s no cost to the provider doesn’t mean it’s actually the case. It absolutely costs money to host an email alias - essentially an additional email address - and traffic mails to your main email address. That’s why the aliases are limited in the free tier, same goes for other providers like addy.io, Firefox Relay or SimpleLogin. If you want to be in absolute control over your aliases and can’t trust any provider - or just don’t want to pay one to do the work for you - then you should absolutely self-host them.