I’m in the process of deGoogling and also shoring up my email privacy, which means I’m hyper aware of mistakes I make, hence the stupid question:
I was testing something with Proton Mail and misspelled the domain—swapped the “r” with one of the neighboring letters.
I didn’t get an email bounceback, which is fine, because you don’t always get a bounceback anyway. But, should I be concerned that I might have just volunteered my email directly to some spam outfit?
The “wrong” domain is registered. I’m acutely aware that the misspelling being one letter away from “Proton” might be intentional to capture misspellings like the one I made. Also, the wrong domain seems to be associated with oopatet.com and trellian.com, which are blocked by ublock.
Is there anything I should do from a privacy perspective?
Or is this a non-issue?
I guess that depends on what you were testing. If you were changing your email ID on one of your social media or other accounts, then it may become a bit of an issue, as compared to just sending yourself an email from your gmail account
Nothing like that. I wanted to see if Proton let you use the “+” trick (e.g., email+string@proton) and couldn’t figure out the keywords to search, so I just did a practical test instead. Sent out a blank email.
Well, yes it works: https://proton.me/support/creating-aliases