Random Name (first/last) and Address Generator
During account creation many websites either require or provide the option to include your first/last name or shipping/billing address.
To increase privacy I want ProtonPass to recognize these fields and give me the option of inserting my saved Identity (request: https://protonmail.uservoice.com/forums/953584-proton-pass/suggestions/46850884-support-identities) or to insert a random generated first/last name, and/or random shipping/billing address. This information would be saved with ProtonPass record.
This would save me so much time during account creation and during checkouts.
Virtual Credit Cards allow users to mask their name and billing address, which is another reason random generators of these kind would be useful.
This request also compliments the random username generator request here: https://protonmail.uservoice.com/forums/953584-proton-pass/suggestions/47027815-username-generator
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Sam commented
I agree completely. Came to write this feature request and saw there was already one in place.
This would be incredibly helpful. As mentioned, many services require a name and at least ZIP code to sign up for the service, even when there’s no practical reason (from the user’s perspective) for this information.
I end up going to either:
https://www.fakepersongenerator.com/
https://www.fakenamegenerator.com/ (A Google service IIRC)This gives me what I want, but it’s an annoying extra step.
The point isn’t to be nefarious about it, but I don’t like giving my real information if I don’t see the clear reason for it.
I think Proton Pass offering this service would be a tremendous aid for those of us who already practice this form of privacy but would also make adoption of some additional privacy practices flourish along those who just find it too burdensome.
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Quentin commented
I also want this feature into Proton Pass.
In fact, it is "just" a clone of Alternative ID of Surfshark: https://surfshark.com/alternative-idI am a long-time user of Proton, I do not want to use other service to handle such kind of data.
Furthermore, an equivalent of Alternative number could be nice, but the simple solution for now is just to buy another mobile phone number.
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sampling_trekker380 commented
We basically had the same idea ! I wrote up a post about it, but didn't publish to avoid duplicates. Here's the text.
Websites often ask for your first and last name, as well as your birthdate. When making a purchase, even for digital goods, they ask your full legal adress.
While Proton Pass does have an alias generator, this is useless if you end up giving your name and address.
I would love it if in the new Identities tool, You could have a "anonymous" profile where it would each time generate a new alias, a new name and last name, and a new address.
Also, it would be nice if you could specify your zip code and country that would remain the same, because the zip code is used for card verification, but the rest of the address is actually not used.
I also believe this should be two or three different modes.
The first one will be spoofing. So for the name you will try to just type "NAME". For the last name you will just try to type "NAME". For the address you will just put " STREET", "CITY", etc. So you will not pretend to be someone random, you just pretend to not want to put your information.
The second one could be just the same info for everyone, so like "Random Nonexistent Name, Adress (at a Proton mailbox)".
And the third one will be just a random address and a random name.Of course I understand that some of these regions might not be possible for Proton to implement for legal reasons. But I believe that generating random non-existent names and addresses should at least be possible and the minimum that should be implemented. I also believe it is the user responsibility to use these tools appropriately.
Some might say that you could already do all of this yourself, but always finding random names that are different is difficult and using tools on the web takes a lot of time.
What does the community think ? I believe this could really put Proton ahead in a comprehensive tool for identity management!
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t commented
Please! What's the point of hiding my email address when I end up giving away my name during sign up.