Jason2357 comments on Proton might recycle abandoned email addresses and the privacy risks are terrifying

submitted 10 months ago by Blaze@piefed.zip to c/privacy@programming.dev

Proton is considering recycling old email addresses that still receive misdirected mail and appear in breach data, raising serious privacy concerns.

[–] Jason2357@lemmy.ca 12 points 10 months ago (3 children)

I have never heard of an email provider that will hold your address for you forever, paid or free. This post makes no sense.

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[–] Dionysus@leminal.space 13 points 10 months ago (1 child)

That's how Gmail worked. Things never got released, once a username is taken I'm it's gone.

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[–] Jason2357@lemmy.ca 1 point 10 months ago

Til. Thanks.

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[–] shalafi@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago*

My Hotmail and Yahoo! accounts from the late 90s are still good and I don't touch them but maybe once every year or two.

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