Use plus address aliases (+) with existing aliases
I have a handful of Proton aliases, and I want to reduce their attack surface area (even just slightly).
I wonder if it is possible to add "+Aliases" for existing Proton aliases?
Example:
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Pierre Decrocq
commented
I would like to suggest the availability in Proton mail of "dynamic aliases".
By this feature, when a website asks your email, you can enter your regular proton mail email prefix (like "john.martin") followed by a "+" sign, then any keyword you would like.
For example, when John Martin wants to create an account on Amazon site, he would enter "john.martin+amazon@pm.me".
The Proton mail system would detect this dynamic alias and ignore the + sign and the suffix and process the email as "john.martin@pm.me".
This allows to create "on the fly" aliases.
The advantage is that if that alias is spammed, you can detect it and filter it in your mailbox. -
PFR
commented
Only being able to choose one alias suggestion, and no easy way to customize it are reasons that I never use the suggestion popup for e-mail fields.
Even a simple "customize" or "edit" button on the suggestion that loaded up the extension popup in the "create alias" mode would make me actually click something on it! -
Pasquale
commented
Actually, when we want to create an alias through Proton Pass, the suggestions are like :
- visitedwebsite.tld as a prefix
- a few suffixes like @personaldomain.tld or @subdomain.simplelogin.com, or many others like the previous onesSince many years, I create my aliases as visitedwebsite0123@personaldomain.tld, which seems more convenient to me. 0123 is a random string given by a script I wrote to remember and create my aliases.
So, a great feature would be to be able to personalize the way to create prefixes, with something like :visitedwebsite([0-9a-z]{4})@mydomain.tld, as an example.