ProtonMail has grabbed the SimpleLogin project. SimpleLogin was launched in 2019. After more than a year of programming, a beta version was released in 2020 and a public version in early 2021. SimpleLogin’s mission is to protect users’ online identities, and they have followed a transparency model from the beginning: the code is 100% open source and product development decisions are openly discussed with the community.
SimpleLogin is a browser extension, web app, and mobile app that provides users with anonymous email addresses when they sign up for a new online service. As the name suggests, it’s an easy way to create a login. This generates an e-mail alias for users so that they do not have to disclose their real e-mail address. This makes SimpleLogin a complementary service to ProtonMail. In other words: A similar solution to what Apple offers with “Hide email address” – or 1Password together with Fastmail.
In the coming months, they want to better integrate the SimpleLogin functionality into ProtonMail, i.e. the Proton community will be able to hide their email addresses with SimpleLogin. If users are already using SimpleLogin with ProtonMail, everything will work as before. SimpleLogin will continue to operate as a standalone service and the SimpleLogin team will continue to develop and add new features, but now with the benefit of Proton’s infrastructure and security technology. Important for SimpleLogin users: SimpleLogin remains agnostic to email providers (SimpleLogin remains compatible with all email services).