Provide more control over alias generation
Email aliases are automatically generated using a pattern like (title)(random number).(random word)(random number)@passinbox.com. The only part of this that the user controls is the title.
If users are not allowed to directly choose aliases, then there should at least be an easy way (like a button) to generate a new random alias. Currently you must close the create dialog and reopen it to get a different alias. The problem is that the random words often have negative connotations, which makes the aliases unacceptable for things like resumes.
Kevin
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John Doe
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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.
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jmprivacy
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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.
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Jake
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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).
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Buzzeger5
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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.
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ramma
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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.
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Anonymous 1
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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
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Ken
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It would also be nice to disallow certain random characters which can lead to confusion: 1lI0O etc
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Kevin
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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.