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I do this pretty much everywhere, but mainly for 2 reasons:
I do this by a catch-all on my own personal domain, so [email protected] will get sent to my inbox. I generate random strings/words/names for every email.
I do the same for the same reasons!
I do this with Protonmail and my only word of warning is migrating this setup isn’t possible with many other services. I tried to migrate to o365 and the setup is silly. I gave up and still use proton.
If you make an alias for each account there should be no trivial way to correlate them together.
But I think there's a problem, making all the effort to go anonymous by signing up through Tor (and I assume using your email client always through Tor) would be kind of wasted because you gave a link all the information they need to tie everything back to you: the aliasing service which:
So you need to trust your aliasing service not to snoop on your emails
Aliases are always recommended over your main email address.
You can have a few email addresses (1 protonmail for personal stuff, 1 protonmail for anonymous/private accounts, etc) and then have a alias account for your personal email and an alias account for your anonymous/private email, etc. This way if the alias service you use gets comprimised, it will not link your personal accounts to your private/anonymous accounts.
One thing to note is that SimpleLgoin (haven't used AnonDady) is that it can generate different kinds of aliases.
One option allows you to specify the part of the email before the @. These will all use a common randomly generated sub domain. As these subdomains are assigned to individual users, you can correlate two aliases to the same user. It's probably not picked us as easily as an exact match, but far from impossible.
Simple login does have the option to generate completely random emails which don't use a common subdomain. This mixes your usage with every other user of the service.
I use Skiff mail and I generated 5 aliases for free maybe I could have done more but I didn't need it. So aliases are included with the email and you can forward you Gmail inbox if needed.