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> Proton Mail for example built it's business around privacy Around the claim regarding privacy. But have you tried to sign up without providing some other ema
by negus 2y ago
> Proton Mail for example built it's business around privacy
Around the claim regarding privacy. But have you tried to sign up without providing some other email address or a phone number?
https://www.wired.com/story/protonmail-amends-policy-after-giving-up-activists-data/ https://www.wired.com/story/protonmail-amends-policy-after-g...
https://cointelegraph.com/news/proton-mail-exposing-activist-showed-limits-encryption https://cointelegraph.com/news/proton-mail-exposing-activist...
https://restoreprivacy.com/protonmail-data-requests-user-logs/ https://restoreprivacy.com/protonmail-data-requests-user-log...
- WithinReason 2y agoYes I just did, in a private window, and all I needed to do was complete a captcha. But even if your IP is on their naughty list, you can delete that data once you have registered, and I would be very surprised if Proton secretly kept it after you delete it.
- dialup_sounds 2y agoIf you sign up without another email or phone number you get a warning: "You did not set a recovery method so account recovery is impossible if you forget your password. Proceed without recovery method?" ...which you can just click through.
- KomoD 2y ago> But have you tried to sign up without providing some other email address or a phone number? Yep. Here's a video of me doing it: https://streamable.com/8anw1v https://streamable.com/8anw1v