The previous owners were bots and the accounts were deactivated by proton shortly after registry

The previous owners were bots and the accounts were deactivated shortly after registry

I’m sure proton would clear the inboxes before making the addresses available, so there’s no risk of seeing legitimate mail meant for someone else.

In terms of misdirected mail there are two types:

1. Mistyped email addresses
   where a user has made a typo when entering their email somewhere
2. Randomly typed email addresses
   where a user entered a random email when signing up for a service they didn’t care about

Both of these can affect any existing email address (so proton’s plans make no difference), and only type 1 could be a privacy risk.

Email addresses aren’t secret, nor are they personally identifiable (unless they contain your name or are linked with other personal information) so I don’t see a problem here.

That’s because on (most) Linux distros, updates aren’t recompiling the program to get the most performance.