[MattDemers]

Yeah definitely; the "+" alias is built in to most emails (like, it works on Google/Proton at least). I'm more just saying that if you pay for ProtonMail (and therefore care about privacy more than the average person) you get another service for free that doesn't expose your "real" email if someone cared to look.

Someone can look at [e-mail] and figure out Joe's "real" email address. Something like SimpleLogin (sorry, not a shill for them, I swear) gives you a completely new email/domain (and lets you set up your OWN domains), which then forwards to your proper inbox.

[kadoban]

Yeah it's definitely a better pattern, I hope more companies create something like it. I think I heard Apple is doing something similar maybe? I seem to recall Fastmail has one too, pretty sure I saw it in the bitwarden settings last I went in there.

[MattDemers]

Apple does this with email forwarding aliases on your phone; I can sign up using a generated Apple relay, which then pushes to your main email. I don't like it that much, mostly because you're still kind of locking into the Apple ecosystem, though.