What happens if you have more than 1 free accounts on privacy-respecting email providers such as Protonmail or Tutanota?
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Probably nothing would happen to you. They might correlate your IP address and ban you, but that's likely it.
However, don't do that. Servers aren't free, and if people abuse the charity of these services, they'll stop offering free options for everyone.
If you need extra addresses, use something like https://addy.io/. if you need more storage, might be worth considering self-hosting your email.
Addy is nice but sometimes blocked, and a bit expensive.
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Addy is nice but sometimes blocked, and a bit expensive.
Free for me. I haven't paid them a cent. Depends what you need out of the service.
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Sure but they probably make more than enough money. Email is really cheap to run
Perhaps, but you're just guessing. I don't know their operating costs, and I would suspect that neither do you.
If you know better, please enlighten me.
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Proton explicitly enabled keeping 2 free accounts on the mobile apps quite some time ago, probably more than a year, so they're cool with you having 2 like that.
If you get more, you'll be hampered at the application level, but, unless it's like a load of accounts for spam purposes, having just a handful shouldn't get you banned, I believe
How do you do that i don’t see an option
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How do you do that i don’t see an option
Open the sidebar, tap the top right three dot menu, tap Add Account
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Proton is CIA
idk if i would inherently say that, but the CEO does have some worms in his brain so there's that.
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Free for me. I haven't paid them a cent. Depends what you need out of the service.
For sure, but the lack of feature to reply/send is certainly limiting after a certain point
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Their ToS only allow one account per person...
Does anyone here have more than 1 free account on such platforms?
Has there been cases where people got banned for having more than 1 free account?
Nothing yet. This came about before I learned to use email aliases, so I created a couple accounts in fear of being correlated across shopping sites and other services. Though at no point did I consume more than 500 MB across my accounts, the limit for one free account.
If anyone at Proton is reading this, my apologies and many thanks for graciously providing these accounts for free the past several years. I'll stop leeching resources once I finish migrating to my new email provider.
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For sure, but the lack of feature to reply/send is certainly limiting after a certain point
I'm able to reply just fine. They have a special address that goes to your inbox, and when you reply, it looks like you're replying from that alias and not your main email address.
That was one of the first things I checked on, since replying is sometimes necessary.
You can also send by going into your Aliases and clicking "Send" by one of your aliases. This will open a dialogue that creates the recipient address you need to use in whatever email address is verified with Addy.
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Danged zombies ruining it for the rest of us.
I cloned myself so he could live my dream of multiple accounts.
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I'm able to reply just fine. They have a special address that goes to your inbox, and when you reply, it looks like you're replying from that alias and not your main email address.
That was one of the first things I checked on, since replying is sometimes necessary.
You can also send by going into your Aliases and clicking "Send" by one of your aliases. This will open a dialogue that creates the recipient address you need to use in whatever email address is verified with Addy.
Free plan states
Anonymous Reply + Send From Daily Limit "X"
as unsupported for the free plan... So I'm quite surprised
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Perhaps, but you're just guessing. I don't know their operating costs, and I would suspect that neither do you.
If you know better, please enlighten me.
Again, just relatively common sense.
Postfix etc... isn't that hard to run. I selfhost a mailcow installation, which is considered "full" and "expensive to run" and it's still really fine to run. Not expensive when scaling up to multiple users, the most important is the initial performance cost per instance.
We're mostly paying for salaries and R&D I believe. They're developing other services and stuff, but they could easily charge less and still be profitable, they just wouldn't have this much reserves.
Perhaps they don't realise that by lowering their subscription costs, they could get more users... like me
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Nothing yet. This came about before I learned to use email aliases, so I created a couple accounts in fear of being correlated across shopping sites and other services. Though at no point did I consume more than 500 MB across my accounts, the limit for one free account.
If anyone at Proton is reading this, my apologies and many thanks for graciously providing these accounts for free the past several years. I'll stop leeching resources once I finish migrating to my new email provider.
I'll stop leeching resources once I finish migrating to my new email provider.
lol
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Again, just relatively common sense.
Postfix etc... isn't that hard to run. I selfhost a mailcow installation, which is considered "full" and "expensive to run" and it's still really fine to run. Not expensive when scaling up to multiple users, the most important is the initial performance cost per instance.
We're mostly paying for salaries and R&D I believe. They're developing other services and stuff, but they could easily charge less and still be profitable, they just wouldn't have this much reserves.
Perhaps they don't realise that by lowering their subscription costs, they could get more users... like me
Sounds like a market opportunity.
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Because if you pay, you can have as many Proton accounts as you please.
Hmm, oops I guess…
I only have two, so i doubt they’d be too mad but back in the Gmail invite days, I definitely got my main email closed for sending too many invites to myself (to open GameFAQs alt accounts lol).
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Their ToS only allow one account per person...
Does anyone here have more than 1 free account on such platforms?
Has there been cases where people got banned for having more than 1 free account?
Why should you have multiple free accounts?
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Why should you have multiple free accounts?
I kinda get it for people who want to compartmentalise their email.
I personally have 1 email I only use for banks and other important logins, and then a second one that is a bit more general use.
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Probably nothing would happen to you. They might correlate your IP address and ban you, but that's likely it.
However, don't do that. Servers aren't free, and if people abuse the charity of these services, they'll stop offering free options for everyone.
If you need extra addresses, use something like https://addy.io/. if you need more storage, might be worth considering self-hosting your email.
Probably nothing would happen to you. They might correlate your IP address and ban you, but that's likely it.
I mean, that's probably the worst thing that can happen to your email, lol. Consider how much your online life depends on access to your email.
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Probably nothing would happen to you. They might correlate your IP address and ban you, but that's likely it.
I mean, that's probably the worst thing that can happen to your email, lol. Consider how much your online life depends on access to your email.
True, but I would suppose that depends how intertwined your account is with your life. A couple of new accounts probably wouldn't matter that much. I just more meant that they wouldn't try to sue you, or something.
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Their ToS only allow one account per person...
Does anyone here have more than 1 free account on such platforms?
Has there been cases where people got banned for having more than 1 free account?
Protonmail doesn't enforce that ToS option in any way, UNLESS you're making a lot of accounts.
If you have two, they don't really care. If you have 200, then they're going to point to the TOS when they ban you.
