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I went with Pro for the custom domains and catch-all inbox. Now I can give out [email protected] and it will get back to me. It's nice for easily identifying phishing, plus you can set up filters to trash emails to a particular address automatically, so if one of your addresses gets compromised you can just filter them out. Also, it's nice to see who's selling your info!
I do pay for SimpleLogin and will continue to do so. The only place my actual proton email address is exposed is on SimpleLogin. Every site I use on the internet has its own alias. That's 350+ sites currently.
The only downside to a catchall, as I see it, is someone could just start creating any random email address knowing it will find your legitimate mailbox. Also sending as any of the aliases can be a pain.
Yeah, I have to agree that the 'send as' can be a pain, would be nice if it sent as the recipient email by default. As far as people spamming looking for a legit address, I've fortunately not run into that, but I could see how that could happen.
Yeah. I mean, even if you did get targeted by someone they really don't want to waste their time on someone who is more privacy/security conscious. Thieves want easy targets.