Since we started paying for Proton Pass I noticed that a few websites do not allow you to use the generated e-mail. Two that come to mind are Atlassian and Discogs. Has anyone figured our a way to go around this?
Some websites do that. They block at the domain level. It tends to become a escalating game of spinning up new alias domains.
https://proton.me/support/creating-aliases#additional
If you have a paid plan, you can create at least 10 additional addresses (depending on your plan) with any Proton domain (@proton.me, @protonmail.com, @pm.me, or @protonmail.ch) or a custom domain, if you have one.
I have a custom domain, which websites never block, because they have no way of knowing that I use it for aliases.
Interesting. I think I will consider the custom domain solution then. Thank you!
Two things either don’t use their service or you could get your own domain and then set up a catch-all so that you can create as many aliases as you want with your own domain. So like kroger@example.com, walmart@example.com, etc.
Lots of sites block mailinator.com domains, too.
My approach with companies that do this: Contact them, explain that I will not be giving them any money due to this aggressive anti-privacy practice, and take my business elsewhere.
If you happen to be paying for iCloud storage, you could use their hide-my-email service for those rare accounts and have it send to your proton email (apple lets you use an external email to forward to). That’s one of the big benefits of apple’s alias solution; they are all in the icloud.com domain and no website would ever block that.
