How many different email accounts do you have? I don’t mean aliases, but actual, separate inboxes and/or providers. Where does it make sense to keep things separate and where does it just create needless complexity? When is it too much?
I have over time amassed 10 accounts now, which seems a bit too much.
1 main account with my real name in it
1 former real-life account, created decades ago; not really used for anything now but I don’t really want to delete it as it was my first ever email account
3 different “persona” accounts which may or may not use my actual name (I’m not going to go into details, but imagine stuff like a private hobby website, a separate gaming identity, a side hustle)
4 “anonymous” emails all with the same provider that don’t really have any meaningful difference (like using each account for specific things); these are just for throwaway stuff like if you have to give a website an email, or for NSFW stuff, or for writing one-off reader emails to bloggers/newspapers. Could definitely delete three of them and use aliases instead.
Just curious to hear how others are juggling it. One account with dozens of aliases? Dozens of separate accounts, creating a new one for each new “thing”? All with the same provider or distributed across different ones?
The non proton accounts are leftovers from before beginning my privacy journey. The yahoo account is basically dead. The gmail account was acting as a catch-all and then forwarding to an alias before I bought my own domain, which has allowed me to nearly move off of that account as well. Although I sometimes still use as a “business sounding” email for professional occasions.
Too many over the years. But now my main is just 1. I’ve got my custom domain for alias, 1 service got a dedicated 1 unique alias not used anywhere else via the domain, routed to my main via addy.io. Still have an outlook address active, but its just sitting idle as the recovery for my main.
Easier to manage everything from just 1 main inbox.
One proton, one icloud, two outlook due to work. One legacy gmail is only checked once per a few months. SimpleLogin aliases and iCloud hide my email as a fallback.
Hopefully those 15 proton accounts aren’t all free accounts. Its against their tos to have multiple free accounts. I’ve heard stories of people actually creating dozens free accounts but end up getting all banned.
Rightfully so, abusing the system like that will only ruin the experience for those who need free Proton accounts the most. Unfortunately, it seems highly unlikely they are paying for 15 proton accounts.
