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This is really not the same thing as a truly disposable address. Anyone can easily guess your real email address, just by ignoring everything including and after the "+". And since this is a common scheme (Gmail uses it) any not stupid spammer would now how to automatically strip the irrelevant part of the email address.
The way Yahoo does it is better, where you have an entirely separate address that you can create disposable addresses out of. If you regular address is test@protonmail.com, the your disposable address might be spam+[fill in something]@protonmail.com. This way an email sent to spam@protonmail.com would be invalid and go nowhere and when you dispose of an address the email just gets bounced back.
Whereas in the current protonmail scheme any email with a "+" subname to it will always be deliverable and users have to filter it in our out. That's really not what a disposable address is. You want the spammers to get the email bounced back as undeliverable.
I agree, the way Yahoo does it is a proper truly disposable address that protects your real email address. The way Protonmail (and Gmail) do it, but just letting you add a subname with a "+" in your real email address does not protect your real email address and is not disposable. It's just a handy way to filter incoming email into different boxes if you want to.