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What's a good alternative to Proton? (piefed.social)
submitted 3 days ago by bowsertattoo@piefed.social to c/privacy@lemmy.world
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Proton is seeming sketchier lately. What alternatives do y'all have in your back pocket? Especially for email, but really any part of the suite.

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[–] hperrin@lemmy.ca 7 points 3 days ago (2 children)

I created Port87. It’s awesome for keeping your email organized, and it’s been really good at preventing spam. Recently, one of my labels started getting spammed, so I got to use the block feature for the first time. :) The weird thing is it was an old label I didn’t use anymore.

[–] corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca 8 points 3 days ago (1 children)

  1. Your website frustrates copy and paste. That's kinda lame, dude.

  2. Labels sounds like plus-addressing with extra steps.

[–] hperrin@lemmy.ca 0 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Lol, labels are plus addressing with fewer steps.

Port87 uses these labeled addresses to deliver your email into the correct label when it arrives.

Using labeled addresses has many advantages over traditional email:

  • Email is organized on delivery.
  • Labels can have individual settings, like notifications and mark-as-read.
  • Labels can be blocked if that address leaks online.
  • Phishing attempts are very obvious when they arrive in the wrong label.

Unlike other email services that support subaddressing (also known as plus addressing when the delimiter is "+"), Port87 automatically chooses the right from address when you send a message from a label. Port87 is built around subaddressing, so it is not treated as an afterthought like it is with other services.

- https://port87.help/#a-new-kind-of-email

At least, fewer steps you do to get the same result. If you think of it as extra steps that the software does automatically, then sure. But yes, Rick and Morty is great. :)

I don’t understand your first comment. Are you trying to copy something from the site and it’s not letting you? I don’t have any sort of copy blocker on it.

[–] speckofrust@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 2 days ago

I’ve created aliases and then somehow received spam on them years after I’d stopped using them. No idea how these spam losers pass around email addresses, but I’m happy people like you are building tools to thwart their BS.