I think you’re off to a great start.
It’s good to have a lot of options if you can afford it.
Please note that when you have multiple Proton addresses (@ pm.me) under the same account, you can only delete one per year. So if you have 5 Proton addresses under your Proton Unlimited plan and you want to delete 2 of them, you can only delete one of them every year.
In addition, last I checked, secondary Tuta addresses (@ tuta.com) cannot be completely deleted. They can be disabled, but not deleted. Please double check and ask Tuta support. You’re likely to get a faster response on social media, even as a paid user. I would reach out to them on both social media and via email.
Yes, Proton Pass’ alias management is more elegant than Addy’s. Their UI & UX is better. I also like that they let you create your own prefixes.
Yes, it’s very frustrating. I appreciate that Addy is more generous in that regard.
They will allow at least 3 to 4 aliases with the same website. That is what I was explicitly told when I asked them.
Their internal system will know. That is what happened to me.
Do some people get away with it? Yes.
Most likely because a certain amount of time passed between the registration of their multiple aliases for the same website. And most people who have successfully registered multiple aliases with the same website do not know that they are breaking Proton’s ToS. First, because they didn’t get a warning. And secondly, because Proton doesn’t make their ToS clear or communicate their rules in their marketing.
I personally would not try to game Proton’s system. Once I learned the rules and got a warning for it, I did not want to tempt the devil. Even if you have successfully registered multiple aliases with the same website and haven’t had any issues for years, you have to understand that you can be reprimanded at any point. Even if it’s years later.
The best we can do is demand that at the very least, Proton make their ToS clear, but also plead for increasing the limit to 2 to 4 aliases per third-party website, as not allowing more than one can present security issues.