An increasing number of services are explicitly prohibiting the use of disposable email addresses, including those from SimpleLogin. This means that Proton Mail cannot be used for those services unless the direct, unhidden address is exposed to those services. This is eroding the value of this feature.

A recent support email from one of these services stated it clearly:

"After reviewing, the email domain, passmail.net is using simplelogin.co mail server and is a disposable email service. We do not allow email changes/signup to [name of service] using a disposable email address."

I use this type of alias to ensure each service I use has a distinct point of contact. It's a means of detection, to determine who is abusing my trust. I won't drop an address unless I need to sever a source of confirmed spam or abuse. In essence, they're only "disposable" in that they use the same servers as email addresses created specifically to be thrown away once they've served their purpose. If my aliases are disallowed on that basis, then I need another solution, one which operates the same way as SimpleLogin aliases, but without being (inaccurately) identified as a "disposable" address.

The alias creation logic used in https://app.simplelogin.io differs from Proton Pass.

When creating a Random Alias based on Random Words via app.simplelogin.io, the following format is used: train_green748@simplelogin.com. However, when creating it via Proton Pass a different format is used: train.green748@simplelogin.com

While this is not a major issue, an observant adversary will likely be able to infer the origin of the alias and determine that the person is a Proton Pass user.

Please standardize the alias creation logic across the two platforms for an extra little layer of privacy.

I'd love for these to be able to be generated on the fly the way apple offers hide-my-email when signing up to an account and generating a password and everything into password app. Would be really nice to have an unlimited amount available so I can have a unique email for each service that I can easily disable if that email gets burned in a breach or something. Nothing worse than having persistent spam with the only way out being to delete the email address.

In addition to the current format, please add the ability to generate hide-my-email aliases using a randomised character format (e.g. fc452bd5ea@passmail.com or fc452bd5ea@pass.proton.ch).

Oh yes, I had to close the dialog, close the Firefox extension and wait 15 minutes for it to generate a new random prefix, because the random word was unsuitable/uncomfortable for the place I was trying to create a login.

Being able to exclude the period would also be nice. Unfortunately a surprising number of webforms refuse to accept email address that include them despite it being perfectly valid.

In Simplelogin, it is available to create aliases with random words or UUID. It would be great if various formats of aliases is supported in Proton Pass too.

- Especially the options that doesn't contain the site name is needed

It would also be nice to disallow certain random characters which can lead to confusion: 1lI0O etc

Resubmitting this idea because my previous submission vanished without a trace.

Users cannot directly choose an email alias. It is randomly generated and includes random words. Those words often have negative connotations, making the alias unacceptable for things like resumes. To regenerate the alias, we must close the create alias dialog and restart the entire process. If we cannot choose aliases directly, at least put a "regenerate" button in the create alias dialog.