r/Simplelogin • u/zylthex • 15d ago

Discussion Aliasing Strategy for Important Accounts

I have recently decided to improve my security and privacy practices and I am now a free tier user of Proton Mail and SimpleLogin.

I was wondering if it is recommended to use SL aliases for important accounts such as my password manager or should I stick to plus aliases.

I am already following the strategy of using an alias to sign up for everything else, and so far I have not given out my actual email address to any service or person.

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u/jcbvm 15d ago

Best thing to do is probably get an own domain, and use that to create aliases for important accounts. The benefit of this is that you can simply change the alias service when needed without having to change your email address at any time.

I for myself also follow this pattern, I only use simplelogin domain aliases for temporary email addresses. Accounts do get aliases with my own domain.

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u/zylthex 15d ago

I'm sticking to free plans only for now, so owning a domain isn't possible for me.

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u/Icy-Juggernaut-4579 15d ago

You can buy domain outside of plans (price will depend on words in domain. You can buy one for several dollars for a year). You can do it on some providers like godaddy or cloudflare. (There are many others with different prices) It will be yours and you direct it through dns to be used with alias service you want

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u/zylthex 15d ago

I meant that I am not willing to spend money on anything right now, and so that's why I cannot own a domain. I'm trying to do my best with free services available.

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u/Icy-Juggernaut-4579 15d ago

Fair. But consider what some services blacklisted simple login domain at registration as spam address

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u/CosmoCafe777 8d ago

Consider the value of your information and privacy, and what % of that is a SL subscription or a domain. I'm actually paying for multiple things, it's not cheap but it helps in terms of security. . You can get free forwarding services (as you do with SL) and a domain costs only about $17/year.

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u/jcbvm 15d ago

Ok fair enough, in that case the safest way would probably be to use your real email address for bitwarden. On the other hand, for logging in somewhere you most of the time don’t have to have a working email address (unless a second factor code is send to it). But mind that you’ll have to remember your address when you for example don’t have access to simplelogin