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"My grievances with Proton"
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"textContent": "Can you have an exit strategy for aliases?\n\nBy aliases I mean:\n\nProton Pass / addy.io / duckduckgo email aliases / etc. (click for more details)\n\nMy grievances with Proton\n\n> Beyond the complaint about lack of goodwill (free service) from Proton, OP exposes larger concerns.\n>\n> * What if Proton went out of business?\n> * What if the (alias) domains land on the “blocked” list so many companies no longer accept them?\n>\n\n>\n> Changing your primary email is bad enough: changing thousands of aliases adds an additional manual step to that process (1. finding the correct alias for the account 2. generating a new alias to replace it).\n\nUsing your own domain is not a real solution because:\n\nMy grievances with Proton\n\n> I am using my own domain, but OP correctly points out that you lose anonymity/privacy since all your email aliases can be tied to you in aggregate. Even if I used 10 domains it would still break anonymity.\n\nMy grievances with Proton\n\n> I’d love to see a discussion about ways around the problem that maintain privacy and durable access independent of the control of others.\n\nSo, does anyone have a solution for this?",
"title": "Aliases exit strategy"
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