EDIT: Just thanking everyone for the thoughtful responses. Really enjoyed reading everyone’s takes here and will definitely think on things moving forward and try various configurations out!
Hi all, interested in your thoughts here. Recently signed up for Proton Unlimited via Black Friday sale mainly for email/VPN/drive. For passwords I’ve been happy with Bitwarden and DDG for email forwarding (plus you get a duck.com address which is just fun).
If you were me would you move over to ProtonPass to streamline, or keep these things broken up? On one hand I don’t want all my eggs in one basket, on the other hand I feel like it means I am trusting my info to one Swiss-based org vs Proton + DDG/Bitwarden which are US based. Plus if I am paying for a service I feel a little less like the product in the long term.
Feel pretty ok with both options as my main objective is de-Googling, but interested to hear what has worked well for others. Appreciate any input!
I got started with aliases on anonaddy (now just Addy). After using a while I jumped into using my own domain, this is the real game changer.
Aliases are great and do their thing, but owning your own domain let’s you move everything all at once if you need to.
For instance, when proton added aliases I tried it out. I just redirected my MX records and was done. I didn’t like how they handled the header data because it broke a majority of my filters, so I switched back. Again, a simple setting adjustment and done.
For the record, I’ll probably switch everything over to proton eventually, but at the time didn’t want to recreate my filters. It makes sense to have all email controls under your email provider.
I just wanna say email aliasing is an email related thing so why is it unlimited aliases included in proton pass plus and not proton mail plus???
I’m using Proton Pass aliases and they work like a charm. With the browser plugin, it’s easily feasible to generate one for every single thing you sign up for. I would argue that there are some advantages over DDG (although I haven’t used their service in for quite a while):
- Proton applies E2EE to incoming mails
- If the mails go to your Proton account anyway, removing DDG means removing a proxy that could read your mails or be an attack vector to do so
- Afaik you can secure your proton account way beyond what DDG offers (password + 2FA + Sentinel + extra password for Mail + extra password for Pass) if you want to
- Convenience: You can manage everything in Pass and it tells you right away what you created an alias for, allows to create accounts from it etc.
Is it a total game changer? Probably not.
No. Proton’s sketchy business aside, I wouldn’t put everything into one basket. Bitwarden also supports a few email aliasing services natively using an API token.
