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Do you trust Proton?
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Privacy has become a very important issue in modern society, with companies and governments constantly abusing their power, more and more people are waking up to the importance of digital privacy.
In this community everyone is welcome to post links and discuss topics related to privacy.
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You can't create proton account anonymously very easily. If attempting to create account using for, you're prompted to enter phone number or existing email iirc.
Edit: just tested, existing email is needed. This already tells they do not want people to create accounts in a privacy respecting way even if it's somewhat trivial to bypass if you know how
Tell me you don't understand the difference between privacy and anonymity without telling me
I'm not talking about anonymity, even though it's also implied. Proton claims to offer privacy in a similar fashion as Google, they protect your data from everyone but themselves and whichever party they "need" to share the data with.
Google is an advertising business, so the "need" for our data is built into their business model. Proton is not an advertising company and doesn't have any relation with any other party where our data drives their business. If you are concerned that Proton will record your IP when you create an account (which they are very clear on in their privacy policy), you are pretty much looking for anonymity if even you claim not.
Is it possible to use a throwaway email, such as tempmail.org?
Tempmail.com and temp-mail.org are blocking tor users. Tested some other random service that works, but proton blocked their mail domains