Switch to Protonmail Reason #13: Keep your primary address away from retail mailing lists
A store needs a way to send a receipt; it does not need the address you rely on for your most important accounts.
Why this matters
A store needs a way to send a receipt; it does not need the address you rely on for your most important accounts. Privacy is easier to defend before this information is collected than after it has spread.
The protection
Use a forwarding alias for shopping while preserving your primary Proton address.
Take action
Start with new purchases and change existing retail accounts gradually. A retailer still knows what you buy from it. Email protection depends on the route and settings. Ordinary mail involving outside providers is not automatically end-to-end encrypted, and email metadata is not universally hidden.
Sources
- Categories: Proton Mail
- Tags: #Digital Self-Defense, #Shopping Privacy, #Proton Mail, #Email Privacy