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>This isn't the Hotmail age where everyone expects free email. Protonmail does offer a free tier, which is the problem. I'm sure they would be happy to take a
by goatsi 5y ago
>This isn't the Hotmail age where everyone expects free email.
Protonmail does offer a free tier, which is the problem. I'm sure they would be happy to take a payment instead, as the whole point of phone verification is to impose a cost on account creation. Perhaps they can rework their account registration flow to offer the ability to upgrade to a paid account at the verification step.
- istingray 5y agoSee, I like this idea. This is the type of thinking I'm paying Protonmail for.
- fishtacos 5y agoIf you're upgrading to a paid account, isn't that even worse than the initial step in terms of anonymity? I get that they need to make money to survive, but this requirement isn't displaced by e2ee - it provides a misleading and false sense of security. Anonymity toward state actors is compromised in either situation, whether phone verification or payment validation. Doubt I'm the only one who thinks this, but the value proposition of their service is cancelled by their stated terms, which at least they make available. I have similar doubts about the veracity of claims by VPN providers (including mine) in terms of not keeping logs. tor remains the only usable anonymising method with a decent track record. It's a shame Protonmail discriminates against it.
- goatsi 5y agoThey support Bitcoin as a payment method. If you take precautions (ie use a Monero -> Bitcoin payment service over tor) I don't see it as compromising your identity.