Proton Mail sucks now

[RollerGator]

You're required to give them an email for verification now and it can't be another proton account or an email you've given them before. So what's a better alternative?

 

[Gog & Magog]

cock.li
It's got cocks!

 

[Grim_Autismo]

I've heard good things about tutanota, sucks about PM but it was bound to happen eventually.

 

[rebel]

Thanks for bringing this up. I'm shocked nobody mentioned it, but Proton said they would delete my emails if I didn't log in for 2 years to stop climate change. I'm fed up with private alternatives selling us out first, duckduckgo. Now this?

 

[Derrick]

You're required to give them an email for verification now and it can't be another proton account or an email you've given them before. So what's a better alternative?

Are you sure? I just made an account right now to test this and only had to complete a recaptcha and clicked maybe later for the recovery email/phone number.

Your issue might be that you've created too many accounts on your IP address, which causes them to begin making you provide a backup email for additional accounts. Try going somewhere else, or change your VPN's location if you have one.

 

[seri0us]

cock.li
It's got cocks!

I recommend watching their movie COCKCON 2020 (2019) (2022). It has no genitals/nudity, instead it's about 4-5 guys traveling the Mongolian wilderness on motorbikes. Genuinely one of my favorite films and if it wasn't for the name I'd definitely bring it up to people more often.

 

[Dunkin DoNUT]

Your issue might be that you've created too many accounts on your IP address, which causes them to begin making you provide a backup email for additional accounts. Try going somewhere else, or change your VPN's location if you have one.

I wonder how many is too many accounts for creating Proton Mail. I only created a few, about one or two account per year (I think?) and alternatively use tutanota for burners.

 

[Georgio Cocklord]

You're required to give them an email for verification now and it can't be another proton account or an email you've given them before. So what's a better alternative?

Use an email generator, I was able to create a ton of accounts for myself through using disposable emails. You won't be needing them after if you disable the backup email notification in settings.

 

[someonenew]

cock.li or pissmail.com
I trust these two sites with my firstborn child.

I recommend watching their movie COCKCON 2020 (2019) (2022). It has no genitals/nudity, instead it's about 4-5 guys traveling the Mongolian wilderness on motorbikes. Genuinely one of my favorite films and if it wasn't for the name I'd definitely bring it up to people more often.

Non-ironically, I also enjoyed it. But I don't want to mention it to my friends (I already have to explain how cock.li is not a porn site and that I am not a fag)."

 

[The Mass Shooter Ron Soye]

You're required to give them an email for verification now and it can't be another proton account or an email you've given them before. So what's a better alternative?

Are you sure? I just made an account right now to test this and only had to complete a recaptcha and clicked maybe later for the recovery email/phone number.

I've made a bunch of Proton accounts (they work across all services like mail, VPN) and haven't encountered email verification.

It doesn't make sense for them to reject someone making an email account on that basis. I'd actually expect them to demand a phone number before that, but they probably wouldn't.

So I'm leaning towards OP fucking up. I'll make a new account right now. What I got was a choice between completing an easy as fuck captcha or entering an email for verification. The captcha was shown by default, you drag a puzzle piece into the hole, takes 2 seconds. I would have to click "Email" to even know the other option. Then I get to "Set up a recovery method" which has fields for Phone number and email. Both are optional, click Maybe later, then Confirm. It's standard stuff because these provide the average user ways to not lose their account forever if they forget their password, or to use two factor authentication.

I am sitting in the inbox now. No email verification was needed. You could even make an account a different way such as downloading their VPN app, making one there, and then using it to log in to the email service. People want to find reasons to reject Proton, like they gave up an IP login record to the cops one time. Use it responsibly (maybe through a VPN, even their own), log in every year or two (starting in like 2025/2026, policy isn't even active yet AFAIK) and it's fine. Make sure some script blocker isn't nuking the captcha during registration.

The biggest inconvenience they have IMO is that the trash doesn't auto-delete unless you upgrade out of Free tier. So you have to delete messages (the ones with images taking up lots of space) and then do another couple of clicks to manually empty the trash, in order to not hit your storage limit.

I'm going to try their new email alias feature soon, then I'll have hundreds of "accounts".

 

[gagabobo1997]

You have to make a new account to sign up with 3rd party services. They let you make an account but it's basically useless for anything other than sending email. Using it as an email for signups almost always prompts you to do email verification with another email.

 

[bile demon]

Tried to make an email just now, got asked for another email for confirmation code. No option to solve a captcha to bypass this issue. When I gave it one generated by some temp email website, I got an error message about abuse from my network and it wouldn't send the confirmation email. Running a PIA VPN, tried switching to several different servers, same result.

Friendship ended with protonmail.

 

[Derrick]

The biggest inconvenience they have IMO is that the trash doesn't auto-delete unless you upgrade out of Free tier.

I tend to use proton mail for any website which requires an actual email service (and not a temp email address) to sign up for as I think it's good cyber security to use unique emails and passwords for each site and honestly the only real knock I have with it is you have to wait, sometimes over an hour, to use it to sign up for an account on another website or you'll get hit with 'automated abuse' and have your proton mail email suspended. The trouble is there doesn't seem to be any set rule on this and theres no way to know for sure when you're proton mail account is old enough that you can use it to sign up for other sites.

Using it as an email for signups almost always prompts you to do email verification with another email.

You have to wait for an hourish long cool down period after creating the email and then you can use it for email signups without getting hit with the 'automated abuse detected' message.

 

[Sportsball]

I am sitting in the inbox now. No email verification was needed.

That's not what the OP is talking about. You can make a new proton mail without email verification, but in order to sign up for Twitter or other social media, Protonmail will refuse to deliver the confirmation code sent by the social media service until you verify your email address.

 

[gagabobo1997]

You have to wait for an hourish long cool down period after creating the email and then you can use it for email signups without getting hit with the 'automated abuse detected' message.

well that's slightly less retarded but I still hate it and it removes most of the use case of proton for me.

 

[The Mass Shooter Ron Soye]

well that's slightly less retarded but I still hate it and it removes most of the use case of proton for me.

Try making one account, sleep on it until it works, then open the Security Center or whatever it's called and make up to 10 aliases. I was going to do this but I don't really need it yet.

https://proton.me/pass/aliases

I think they added this feature a few weeks ago.

 

[bile demon]

cock.li
It's got cocks!

Is there a known issue getting emails from KF to cock.li? I tried switching my email here to that domain and it wouldn't get the confirmation email even after multiple resends, whereas some random temp email got it instantly.

 

[Derrick]

That's not what the OP is talking about. You can make a new proton mail without email verification, but in order to sign up for Twitter or other social media, Protonmail will refuse to deliver the confirmation code sent by the social media service until you verify your email address.

I created a proton mail to test OP's post about three/four hours ago and was able to use it to receive verification codes without needing an additional email/number.

 

[ToroidalBoat]

Is there a Neutron Mail that's better, or at least neutral?

 

[Orthodox]

You're required to give them an email for verification now and it can't be another proton account or an email you've given them before.

that depends, sometimes it can ask just for captcha, but a problem I encountered was registering an e-mail address to make an account on a site, and instead of the verification mail I expected I got a mail for proton that my address was disabled or something.