Before you compare EU email providers, get your own domain. It is the single change that lets you switch providers later without redoing the painful migration.
I made mine firstname@lastname.me but I also have it set up with proton Mail as a catchall email address so I can give out literallyanything@lastname.me and it all goes to the same inbox with the ability to filter and send some addresses strait to trash.
I used to do that, but it caught far too much spam sent to random usernames on every domain. Now I have a fixed prefix and do prefix+literallyanything@lastname.me, which gives the same benefits with less spam.
I’ll check that out but I like to do things like amazon@lastname.me for each service and when I get spam to that same address I know who sold my email address. Not that I really do anything about it but send that address to spam but I like to know.
I made mine firstname@lastname.me but I also have it set up with proton Mail as a catchall email address so I can give out literallyanything@lastname.me and it all goes to the same inbox with the ability to filter and send some addresses strait to trash.
I used to do that, but it caught far too much spam sent to random usernames on every domain. Now I have a fixed prefix and do prefix+literallyanything@lastname.me, which gives the same benefits with less spam.
Maybe I’m just lucky, I don’t get spam like that… Yet. I’ve had that setup for a few years now though.
You don’t use the simplelogin (now part of proton pass) random or custom address generation? You can use your own custom domain with it.
I’ve been doing this with nearly every new account as it’s normally email or phone which third party data sharing is keyed off of.
I’ll check that out but I like to do things like amazon@lastname.me for each service and when I get spam to that same address I know who sold my email address. Not that I really do anything about it but send that address to spam but I like to know.