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How do you even start with breaking up with your gmail?
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Before you change your accounts over to your new email, use email aliases like anonaddy or simplelogin for your online accounts.
This is what I've done. I've literally just moved to Proton from Gmail. I created aliases for all my sites. The only site that knows about my Proton email address is SimpleLogin.
The only emails in Gmail now are from Google services tied to that Gmail account.
I used Bitwarden to help generate the aliases.
Does bitwarden offer an email alias service, or you just used it to generate the alias names?
No but you can use API's from various alias services so that Bitwarden can generate your aliases for you.
you're a fucking genius.
I've been contemplating this exact thing and after reading this thread, I know what I'm doing tonight. ty!
The biggest downside is there is a cost associated with doing all this. I've gone from free to paying for a domain (optional), SimpleLogin and protonmail.
If you're going to use SimpleLogin and proton then look at their proton unlimited tier. I had SimpleLogin prior to proton so I only use the Mail Plus tier. SimpleLogin comes included in the unlimited tier.
Same, easy as... Plus you know who's leaking your email to spammers and can just turn off the tap, it's glorious. Combined with temp mail (browser add on ) for truly disposable addresses and I get no spam. They'll probably find their way through in time, but for now, golden.