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All of this applies to making a new protonmail account too Requires SMS verification or an impassable captcha loop if over TOR And payment with a credit card
by rolltiide 7y ago
All of this applies to making a new protonmail account too
Requires SMS verification or an impassable captcha loop if over TOR
And payment with a credit card
The cryptocurrency payment option with non-user identifiable info only being available to existing protonmail accounts where that info was already harvested
So it is ironic to see protonmail calling out those specific things about gmail confidential
- slips 7y agoProtonmail does those thongs to try and prevent bad actors or bots from making encrypted accounts to hide their shady tracks. Not for data collection that they'll sell for a profit. Don't be so glib as to state you can't see the difference.
- rolltiide 7y agoFrom their home page: > Secure Your Communications with ProtonMail > Anonymous Email > No personal information is required to create your secure email account. requires personal information to create the secure email account "Protonmail does those thongs to try and prevent bad actors or bots from making encrypted accounts to hide their shady tracks." oh okay, pack it up everyone, don't listen to glib ole me coming to a rational conclusion its IRONIC that I have to trust them as much as I have to trust Gmail confidential's claims about what they may actually do with the data collection. or what they may be coerced to do with the data collection. "Swiss law" doesn't prevent that.
- privateSFacct 7y agoThe point is they flat out lie in this article about requiring it.
- MYEUHD 7y agosolving a ReCAPTCHA ( a google product that fingerprints users) is required to create an account even when not using TOR.
- rolltiide 7y agoright, it is just impossible to get past over most TOR exit nodes.