This has been my pattern ever since switching to ProtonMail. The biggest surprise for me was how little purpose it serves for spam prevention. Coming from GMai

This has been my pattern ever since switching to ProtonMail. The biggest surprise for me was how little purpose it serves for spam prevention. Coming from GMail, I expected an untenable amount of spam - but that seems to only be a GMail problem? I’ve only had two incidents of unsolicited spam from a vendor sharing my email address since moving to ProtonMail. One I don’t remember the details but I gave a yoga accessories company my email address, like a year later I got an email addressed to that email address from a cannabis company. The other time TicketMaster shared my email address with Warner Bros. However my public email addresses (like the ones I use on GitHub, npm, git commits, etc) receive a lot of spam - but those are harvested, not shared. Now my email address actually serves another purpose: limiting the ability for leaked user databases to connect my identity across providers. I’m starting to use a different username, email address, and password for every service I use that isn’t linked to my professional identity.