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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?

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[–] davel@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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.

[–] Templa@beehaw.org 3 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Interesting. I think I will consider the custom domain solution then. Thank you!

[–] d15d@feddit.org 4 points 1 day ago

Having a custom domain for email also makes it a lot easier to move email provider in the future if you want/need to since your addresses can stay the same as long as the new provider supports catch-all for all the aliases.

[–] davel@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

You could try Proton’s other domains first, because they might not all be blocked. Another option is to use a different company’s mail aliasing/forwarding or for these rare cases.

[–] Imprint9816@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I do this as well. Bought one from njal.la for $15/yr

[–] kchr@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 1 day ago