Even better is that simplelogin was purchased by proton and it being incorporated into the product. Already mostly done from what I can tell. I started with Firefox Relay and if they even give me a reason to leave I'll just switch over to what's baked into proton. There is something to be said for keeping them separate though. If I ever leave proton, having kept the relay service separate would be a big time saver.
slowbyrne
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You could always give out a relay to your family and friends as well. Both Firefox relay and SimpleLogin have custom domains so you can give you mom an email address like mom@myname.simplelogin.com
Here's how I solved email spam.
- Create a new email on a privacy focused platform (I chose proton)
- Sign up for an email relay service (Firefox relay, SimpleLogin, etc...)
- Only give out your actual email to friends and family and tell them not to share it with others or services without your permission.
- Change your email on ALL your services to a newly generated relay addresses. Only use relay addresses for any online service moving forward.
- Monitor the old email for a while to find any important services you might have missed.
- When you get spam from a relay address, you can decide to use the normal unsubscribe option, or the nuclear disable relay option. That's it.
Bonus 01: since your changing all your services manually, you can decide to delete accounts you don't need anymore.
Bonus 02: each relay is unique to the service so you can tell when a service either got hacked or sold your info.
Side Note: there are setups similar to this for credit cards. I use Wise.com for online transactions with 3 different "virtual" cards that I can destroy if they get exposed.
COSMIC most of the time and then gnome as a fallback when I run into any temporary issues I can't work around.
I do this with a custom bluebuild image I made that uses ublue (fedora 41) as a base and then added cosmic on top along with some other layers that I need/want.