this post was submitted on 17 Jan 2025
22 points (86.7% liked)

Privacy

4516 readers
123 users here now

A community for Lemmy users interested in privacy

Rules:

  1. Be civil
  2. No spam posting
  3. Keep posts on-topic
  4. No trolling

founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
iopq@lemmy.world
22
"Please do not write to me from anonymous 'proton' email or similar addresses" (archive.ph)
submitted 1 day ago by slug@lemmy.world to c/privacy@lemmy.world
18 comments fedilink hide all child comments
 

thought you guys would find this blog post from Brian Leiter today funny. he's a pretty good guy and a respected scholar so no shade on him, clearly just misinformed. i wonder if this is in some way downstream of the recent political drama around proton.

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] LordWiggle@lemmy.world 3 points 17 hours ago (2 children)

That's funny, I have firstnamelastname@protonmail.com

[–] Free_Opinions 1 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

That's just an example. My real email has my actual name on it.

[–] LordWiggle@lemmy.world 1 points 11 minutes ago* (last edited 6 minutes ago)

Yeah mine too, but am not going to put my full name here. The joke was mine is almost the same, but we have different names (I guess) so they are completely different. But now I want firstnamelastname@protonmail.com. By the way, did you know your email works without the dot too? Or when you add multiple dots? You can also add +sitename before the @ so you can see who sold your data. So, first.name.last.n.a.m.e+lemmy@protonmail.com works just as well as firstname.lastname@protonmail.com and firstnamelastname+lemmy@proton.me

Edit: firstnamelastname@proton is already in use :'(

[–] Buddahriffic@lemmy.world 1 points 17 hours ago

So it's your fault they had to add a period between firstname and lastname!

Now it's a race to get a good number like firstnamelastname69 or 112358.