It was fun while it lasted. The recent addition of PGP support was very welcome, and I thought that such support might have been a sign that they were in it for the long-term with the email product, but I thought wrong.
Dear Skiff Community,
We are excited to share that Skiff is joining Notion.
Skiff's mission is to bring freedom to the internet by helping people collaborate and communicate with freedom and privacy. We see a deep alignment with Notion’s vision to build a connected workspace and enable everyone to build tools that reflect their values.
We’re extremely excited to accelerate our mission by joining forces with Notion’s world-class team. We sincerely hope that the Skiff community will join us for this next stage of our journey. We’re pursuing big plans for making all of our online lives freer and more empowered, and these plans will carry forward directly the ambitions we’ve strived for alongside the Skiff community.
As we begin to shift focus to our shared efforts with Notion, we will be closing down Skiff's product suite after a 6-month sunset period We are deeply appreciative of the trust users have extended to us, and we are committed to honoring that trust by ensuring that all data on Skiff is easily exportable. For the next 6 months, Skiff services will continue to operate without disruption, and users can freely duplicate, migrate, or export data. You can now also set up a forwarding address to redirect mail to any other provider.
Our commitment to privacy and security is unchanged. All user data remains end-to-end encrypted, and Skiff products will never monetize your data. Accounts and data on Skiff will not be converted into Notion accounts.
We encourage you to export your data and migrate custom domains within the next 6 months. We’ve prepared this guide to make that process as easy as possible. For any other questions, our support team is readily available via the in-app “Send feedback” option or at support@skiff.org.
The Skiff community has lifted, inspired, and energized us at every step. We are humbled by your support and we apologize for any disappointment or inconvenience this change may cause you. We remain as committed as ever to bringing about the vision for a better internet that brought us together. Thank you for being part of the Skiff family, and we look forward to continuing to serve you with our future efforts.
Sincerely, Skiff Team
I was using their quick aliases all the time to get free Adobe trials. Is there any alternative? Gmail's "+" aliases are detected as aliases, Skiff was unpopular enough that they hadn't blacklisted them.
Buy your own domain and set it up to forward all email to a single address. Then anything@your.domain is like an alias.
Fastmail supports aliases as well. I'm not sure how they are from a privacy side overall tho
Proton supports quick aliases as well.
Do they have unlimited quick aliases?
Yes, referring to the '+' aliases.
Oh, those are less handy because they still give away your email address
Agreed, they provide 10 masked aliases for free and it's $2/mo for unlimited via Proton Pass.
Yeah, skiff was nice because you got pretty much unlimited quick aliases for free. No need to pre-register them. Basically, you could make one for every company you make an account with:
Ex. somecompany@mysubdomain.maskmy.id
Makes it easy to shut down anyone that doesn’t let you unsubscribe (ie. politicians).
Proton Pass is the same, it's instant. You just need to pay to get an unlimited amount of them. Great feature, integrates nicely with register forms as well.
Wasn't Skiff also limited to 10 alises though on the free tier?
10 active ones. You could delete the ones you didn't need anymore.
Could be.. I paid the $3.50/month and it was included with email, drive, calendar, pages, etc. Really wish proton just included it with their email price instead of requiring you to use ProtonPass or signing up for the more expensive SimpleLogin too.
addy.io is another alternative