I stop reading your “article” when I see “formerly known a Twitter”. It’s been years, EVERYONE FUCKIN KNOWS
2FA isn’t an option for my income tax portal but would be a safer option.
Aliases are used so I never share my actual email address. If any service I sign up with starts spamming, I know that email has been compromised (probably in a breach) or the service spams their users.
Security is very easy for me. Password managers are the norm among the privacy/security community.
Security questions. For me to log into my income tax portal, I need to answer 1 of 5 questions. None of the answers to their questions are something that can be looked up in breach data - for example “Name your first love” my answer could be “the moon”. I log into this once a year so forgetting my fake answers is a real possibility.
Medical information about my family such as current prescriptions and allergies.
My password manager also can create email aliases.
Basically, anything that needs to be kept secure, private, and accessible.
For frequently accessed sites that will work but what about a site that is only needed once a year? Password managers secure a lot more than passwords.
In 2020 System1 bought Waterfox, the same company with a controlling interesting in Startpage.
In 2023 Waterfox became independent from System1.
According to their Wikipedia page https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/System1
Where are the password managers? When changing your accounts to another email provider, this is a really good time to also make sure all the accounts have a strong, unique password or phrase.
I use PipePipe on my tablet. No ads. Recommended videos can be turned off.
They also have something they call a “2fa grid”. Its a picture they send out once a year to citizens with 12 groups of 3 letters. They ask me to enter the letters from three of the boxes. Not an industry standard method for sure. Signing into the portal is probably the most difficult of all my accounts.