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submitted 3 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.

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[-] Jason2357@lemmy.ca 12 points 3 months ago

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

[-] Dionysus@leminal.space 13 points 3 months ago

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

[-] Jason2357@lemmy.ca 1 points 3 months ago
[-] shalafi@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 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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