Can you have an exit strategy for aliases? By aliases I mean: ▶ Proton Pass / addy.io / duckduckgo email aliases / etc. [image] My grievances with Proton Beyond the complaint about lack of goodwill (free service) from Proton, OP exposes larger concerns. What if Proton went out of business? Wha…

There’s no perfect solution. I think a combination of… Custom domain aliases for accounts you really care about. Random aliases for most other things. Seperate custom domain for all signups that don’t require any other details, such as newsletters. pretty much is as good as you can get. There wil…

well for important accounts i have my own domais. So i could always move those and keep receiving the important stuff. Outside of that aliases i use are not that important to me and I can change them as I have backups of the account passwords. outside of that I am not really planning to move away …

So you can buy the lifetime Pass + Simplelogin and not have to worry about the price rising. If proton ever went out of business I think we would get lots of warning to be able to transfer out the aliases. I get that there’s some anxiety about this but especially with the lifetime plan all you have …

also thinking. We should not make this seem bigger than it is. It is a very good idea to keep important accounts on your own domain(s) so you can switch but realistically most people have all their accounts on a single outlook/yahoo/gmail account :smiley:

Instead, may I propose your Alias Entry strategy if you’re so concerned about your aliases on your custom domain being linked to you… Buy a generic “business” domain. Create a dummy business website. Create aliases that look like employee names. mohammed.ali@nexaflow-solutions.com maria.garcia@n…

I use custom domain and don’t expose info about me on whois (it’s registrator’s generic data)

As not every site uses an email address as username, I store my email address for each account in an extra field in my password managers. Side benefit of if an alias happens to enter into a spam farm, I can likely assess who leaked it, and also change the dozen or so places that use it and retire i…

I use a combination of custom domains + SimpleLogins for stuff I don’t care as much about losing access to. Also, while it’s theoretically possible to correlate that the custom domain belongs to you, what’s the likelihood? It seems like more of a risk to a high target individual IMO, less of a conc…

My exit strategy is that I manually change the email address on all of my accounts. A bit ploddy but I think safer and more private/secure than custom domain aliasing.

Custom domain are my solution to be fully portable. It’s registered to my irl legal name, renewal paid for max 10 years plus +1 every year so at any given time it got 9-10 years before expiring. Not perfect because nothing is perfect, but i reckon thats as good as it could get.

If you want better email anonymity, you share a domain with many others (the more, the better). Because of that, you as an individual have no control over that domain — that’s a given. A good approach is to pick a reliable provider and hope they will: Have many domains so not all are blocked at o…

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win11.shading291 May 10, 2026, 9:17pm 14

I should have added a bullet there which concerns me the most:

What if Proton goes the enshittification route?"

Which I feel like the risk is a the very least present.

Reading through the comments though, there doesn’t seem to be a clear solution.

I’ll mark data_goose one as the solution.

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