Well I am exhausted just trying to understand this...fairly illiterate about the cyber world; have had my personal info hacked too many times (from legitimate sites like the IRS, Blue Cross, OPM) so I am super careful in my own ignorant way.

I already have a Proton account but did not know about the option you discuss. Exactly how do you 'trace and turn off' spam in these anonymous email accounts? Sound like a lot of work just keeping track of different accounts....perhaps you have tips on managing this as well.

I already 'block contacts' that arrive on a Yahoo email account on my ipad....fairly easy to identify suspicious emails and confirm this by revealing their real email address and then block that contact. Works well but the amount of diligence and time it takes each and every day is tiresome; once your email has been sold on the dark web the spam traffic is overwhelming.

Thank you so much for sharing your knowledge.