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I have a catch-all but rarely use it for a couple of reasons:

  1. You’re essentially doxxing yourself when you use it, if you care about that, since you’re the only one with that domain.

  2. When someone inevitably figures out you use one, they will use it to harrass you.

Main reason you’d use it is if you created aliases in SimpleLogin and want them to be visible in Proton Pass.



Previously, if you used the SimpleLogin dashboard or extension to create an alias, it wouldn’t show up in Pass

Weird, all of mine have been synced both ways since day 1…?


What does “sync aliases” mean? What am I syncing? They both already sync aliases.

as well as send emails from Proton Pass hide-my-email aliases

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I’m on MacOS. As I said in my original reply, I’ve expressed my dissatisfaction several times.




Here is the add

I just got it again. Note how Unlimited is grayed out, because that’s the subscription I already have. Also note the “ProtonVPN” at the top. This is a nearly full screen ad that just popped up when I opened the app.



That’s a good point but I see nothing about that in their announcement. Could very well just establish a US-based non-profit.


Ah well if you haven’t personally seen them they must be a figment of my imagination!


It’s not a single ad. It’s a new ad every time they launch a new subscription service, or have some sort of sale, several times a year, across all of their products, with no way to permanently disable them.


Which basically is a protection against aggressive takeovers and the enshittification that would follow.

OpenAI begs to differ.


Yes there are. I just saw an ad for their new Duo subscription in a pop-up when it started up.




The advertising is the worst thing about Proton. I’ve made them aware of this several times but it just keeps getting worse. They started putting ads in the VPN app now.

As far as I’m concerned, as a paying customer I shouldn’t be subjected to ads but, what’re ya gonna do?


I was not. What is transmitted is not user activity. It’s all there in your link.



Not really. The browser is tracking the user. All user activity remains local in the browser.



Yeah, pretty much. You need to be able to split tunnel and toggle it on and off as necessary because many sites just assume that you’re doing something nefarious if you’re visiting from any commercial IP.



I don’t think there’s a reality where advertising disappears entirely. However I do think there is one where advertising is simply less-invasive, which is what companies like Mozilla, Brave, and Ad Nauseum advocate for.



I have to disagree for 2 reasons:

  1. What’s the alternative? We cant evaluate browsers in a vacuum.

  2. Every browser is supported by ads. Advertising has been a part of Firefox since its inception. Im not sure why people are only just now realizing this, I’ve been saying it for years. I dont know that there’s another feasible way to fund development.

We can easily recommend one of the many Firefox forks. Personally I’ve been enjoying Zen browser, which has telemetry disabled and cannot be enabled.

Otherwise we’ll have to wait for Ladybird to be finished.




You asked what the Proton users are that don’t use custom ROMs.

I asked about privacy advocates. You can use Proton otherwise without a Google account and without a custom ROM.

I replied people that simply want an alternative to Google, Apple or Microsoft services. That does answer your question

It doesn’t, because there are a thousand other email providers. Which just leaves privacy advocates (their demographic).


that isn’t Google, MS or Apple

You cant just say “companies that are not X, Y and Z” without further explanation. That doesn’t answer my question. People are not paying for something that is otherwise “free” for no reason.



They seem to often be woefully unaware of who their demographic is…




You have to be online first. Then it stores the data offline in your browser.




I dont think there is a way. 90% of the tracking is performed by the OS itself. That’s why the first thing you have to do is log into a Google account so they can immediately begin tracking you, and that’s why they lock the bootloader.

Funny enough, one of the few devices that allow you to unlock the bootloader is made by Google.


So few that they’re going to spend more money on it than they will make.


I was skeptical reading the headline but changed my mind after reading their advertising:

The recipient also can’t take a screenshot of anything you send using view once.

Like, you can’t just say things like that. Complete privacy doesn’t exist. Signal has a similar feature, and while they don’t explicitly say “anyone can save this message on the other end”, they also don’t advertise it as completely private.


How to filter emails from mailing lists?
I get lots of spam from particular mailing services like Constant Contact and Mailchimp. 100% always spam from these services. Is there a way to block messages received through these services? I can see the domains in the header of the email but I don't see an option to block messages based on info in the header.
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