Personally, if a service is prejudiced towards aliasing or privacy more generally. I will,
Reassess how important that service is to me
If not so important, I just forget about the service and find something more inline with my values.
If it is important to me, I’ll use one of my more permanent aliases (i’m lucky enough to use a provider that is quite generous with aliases, so I have some broad aliases like “retail@email.tld” or “receipts@email.tld” or “aliases-are-mainstream-now@email.tld” that I use as fallbacks if 3rd party aliases (addy, sl, etc) don’t work.
I use a custom domain with SimpleLogin for my aliases : I don’t recall having that domain refused once. And if for some reason in the future I want to change my alias service provider, I can’t take my domain with me and not worry about updating every accounts.
I sometimes use one of SimpleLogin domains aliases when I want an email not tied to own domain name.
I try to go with aliases. If not, I am boycotting this service by principle.
If it is very urgent and I cannot go with aliases I use (not ad, so copy/paste yourself) https://smailpro.com/advanced with it’s temporary gmail.com and outlook.com domains that cannot be rejected by obvious reasons.
IMPORTANT: Such services are public and not E2EE so owner CAN use it to read mails or even get into your account that registered via such mail. You should NOT use such mails for important stuff.
P.S: It is also good idea to report website that blocks your alias to your alias provider support. For example for SimpleLogin it is antiabuse[at]proton.me
Last week, I had a bugger of a time making a Bluesky account. All the Simplelogin aliases were rejected. I tried with one of my Protonmail addresses but that Bluesky account was restricted.
Finally, I made a Tuta account. No issues.
I contacted Simplelogin and Bluesky support but haven’t heard back from them.
Anti-abuse is pretty useless. The Washington Post and the NY Times are having trouble with alias and the VPN. They told me to just try different servers or that the issue is out of their hand as its up to them to resolve. I would have hoped for something more such as more domains?
How does Adguard compare to Simplelogin and Proton Pass?
I have never heard of emailnator before. Is this a good private and secure service? How does it create a Gmail address as a catchall when it doesn’t own the domain?
You just revealed something very important, and that everyone should take note of.
Every time someone shares that they were unable to create an account for a given website with a specific alias provider, and you know that you were able to do it in the past, you should check if it still works.
My Blue Sky account was created with a Proton Pass alias. Although, Proton Pass and Simple Login don’t have the same domains, as far as I’m concerned, they are the same product. Hence, I’m definitely going to check if my Blue Sky alias still works.
Some people forget that your alias can stop working at any time. Even years after it was accepted with a given website. I have lost online accounts that way, so please take note, and always check if your aliases still work when something like this is revealed by another user.
Tuta and Proton Mail domains are not aliases, though. That said, I hope Tuta eventually gets in the alias business.
What do you mean by anti-abuse is useless? Are you referring to the alias provider’s policy? Also, when you say it’s up to them to solve this, who are you referring to?
I am currently in conversation with Proton / Simple Login support, who insist on telling me that Simple Login and Proton Pass are separate products. IMO, if paying for one grants you premium access to the other, and a core feature of one (Proton Pass aliases) is managed by the other (Simple Login), then they are the same product.
All that being said, I just realized that if Proton is going to insist that they are NOT the same product, then their 1 alias per third party website rule is NOT being infringed upon if I create one alias with Simple Login for a personalBlue Sky account, and a 2nd alias with Proton Pass for a workBlue Sky account.