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  "path": "/t/my-grievances-with-proton/37526?page=5#post_91",
  "publishedAt": "2026-05-03T14:02:41.000Z",
  "site": "https://discuss.privacyguides.net",
  "tags": [
    "@The_Learner"
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  "textContent": "ThePrivacyDad:\n\n> I see a lot of advice to use email aliases in privacy tools overviews, but not a lot of thought has yet gone into what happens if you can no longer pay for the service - how do you backtrack and ‘undo’ all those logins? I’m guessing the only way in OP’s case is to pay for an extra month and change account user names one service at a time.\n\nI feel the need to reiterate that this is also what happens if you aren’t using aliases and a paid email subscription runs out- or google mistakenly bans you, or whatever.\n\nI have to agree with @The_Learner’s point that they are targeting google suite users, though. Being painfully clear in that case would be ideal, whereas instead we get… whatever Proton is doing now with all their overlapping services and backends.\n\nPeople should probably think more about if they need an alias too, rather than just sticking an alias on everything (eg, government sites like OP did, where they know your identity just as much as your friends/family), even if you aren’t sure you would be able to change it in time to prevent problems.\n\nSwitching emails is mostly not _that_ bad, though. OP could have switched a lot of emails in the time they spent impressing us with their well researched statements. Though I do appreciate the lesson in the four types of proton aliases and the intersection with subscription expiration behavior.",
  "title": "My grievances with Proton"
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