🚨 COCK.LI IS ON RED ALERT.

[Hey Johnny Bravo]

Hasn't that already happened? I'm sure when I was trying to make a back-up e-mail during #DropKiwiFarms Proton wanted a phone number.

If worst comes to worst I'm not above paying thirty bucks cash for a burner phone and making a bunch of accounts, it's just an unnecessary annoyance. I wonder what's going to happen when people eventually move away from having a phone number, too.

I used Proton Mail to make my Kiwi Farms account at the end of July this year and it did not ask for a phone number.

 

[Osama Bin Laden]

The following sites are now showing this same error:
cock.li
mail.cock.li
cockbox.org

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You never know what you had until it's gone. Call your parents if you can.

we're so back?

 

[myhairisonfire]

we're so back?
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Apparently. Your community feature was for naught.

 

[Osama Bin Laden]

Apparently. Your community feature was for naught.

thanks jersh

 

[Coberald]

Hasn't that already happened? I'm sure when I was trying to make a back-up e-mail during #DropKiwiFarms Proton wanted a phone number.

If worst comes to worst I'm not above paying thirty bucks cash for a burner phone and making a bunch of accounts, it's just an unnecessary annoyance. I wonder what's going to happen when people eventually move away from having a phone number, too.

I used Proton Mail to make my Kiwi Farms account at the end of July this year and it did not ask for a phone number.

I think it depends on your IP; I've made a lot of Proton burners over the years and whether or not I get phone number verification has been very inconsistent, closing my browser and switching VPN location a couple times usually fixed it though.

 

[CumDumpster]

The worst thing about all this: Phone numbers have been required for most of the established email hosts.
One has to wonder if this is down to the plague on tech that are mobile developers (and the India menace) or if corpos assume that every living soul has a phone number...
Of course, it could also have to do with having some information to sell as well.

 

[GNU Abyss]

The last time I set up an account at proton.me it didn't ask for a phone number. The downside is they demanded another email for confirmation, and you couldn't use another proton.me address. gmx.com didn't used to ask for phone numbers, do they now?

If I remember right, you can use a temporary mail service to receive the confirmation Protonmail sends out. Pretty sure that's how I registered a burner for this account.

Another option for strictly burner accounts and non-offensive activites is Tutanota (now rebranded as Tuta), German company. No phone number required either. They have a nifty feature of giving you a crypto string instead of prompting for a secondary email for when you forget your password. The free accounts last only 6 months starting from the last login, however, so be wary.

 

[COME ON OUT YOU RAPIST]

Speaking of this, any email services around that don't demand phone numbers? Or at least work with free throw away phone number sites for registration

Here are some that didn't ask me for a phone number. Most can be used on a desktop, which means Javascript (which fingerprints you) isn't necessary.

• GMX
• Yandex
• Rambler
• Tuta
• Mailo
• Posteo
• Runbox
• Proton Mail
• Austici (Note that this one is owned by Antifa sympathizers and has an approval process.)

 

[mlanguishi]

Speaking of this, any email services around that don't demand phone numbers? Or at least work with free throw away phone number sites for registration

Tutanota and you can use that to create a proton as the 'verified' email. Tutanota usually has a 48 hour hold.

 

[Ah ha']

When will Josh make Kiwimail?

 

[CEO of Autism]

I'd recommend tuta over protonmail, they don't ask for a phone nor an alternative email address, nothing. The downsides are that if you try registering from TOR, the account will get rejected most likely - no problems with VPNs so far though - and that if you go for a free account, you need to log in every once in a while so the acc doesn't get deactivated (90 days of inactivity tops)

 

[COME ON OUT YOU RAPIST]

When will Josh make Kiwimail?

Never. If Josh made a truly free email service, it would be swarmed with jeetpreets and he would lose his patience within 24 hours.

 

[Don Yagon]

When will Josh make Kiwimail?

lolcow.email is apparently still up, but with no registrations at the moment.

 

[TheBigZee]

FISA warrant they want to fight or equiv?

 

[Rozzy]

When will Josh make Kiwimail?

Josh had lolcow.email but it was temperamental.

 

[Deep Noise]

How does making everyone's everything vulnerable to sim card swaps a cyber security benefit?

Aside from the obvious privacy concerns related to government surveillance, this would also expose all of us to the risk of data breaches. So, in a hypothetical (and most optimistic*) scenario, the funny email service would now be responsible for keeping phone numbers secure.
If this trend keeps up, we would be one step closer for a hacktivist tranny pwning a lot of users.

Spoiler: *

No Sim-Swap Attacks
No sharing with data brokers
Total Advertisement Death

Imagine if major email providers could simply delete your account because they consider your actions "unacceptable" under their terms of service, without any real transparency or recourse. If you moved to another provider, you'd face the risk of your personal data being mishandled or exposed. With smaller services often forced to comply with government demands, leaving sensitive information like your phone number, ID, and online activities vulnerable to constant surveillance or hacking.
It's frustrating how you're stuck between a rock and a hard place. It's a damn mess.

 

[Kyangyenki]

I used to have a Yandex email, but they locked me out for no reason and I can't access it anymore. 0/10 do not recommend.

Locked me out then asked for recovery question while I never setup any

 

[Jerry1337]

Locked me out then asked for recovery question while I never setup any

Haha sorry. It was me, I set it up for you.

 

[Combustion Engine]

Every service that doesn't comply with the privacy invasive practices common with mainstream providers will end up stuck between real abusers and agencies wanting to strike them, its owner and everyone using it legitimately. We're not far from a point in which anyone using internet services will need some "entry point" where their personal information has been acquired and stored, in some ways it's already here as many non-invasive domains are outright banned and if you're not already in you're fucked. The "anti-fraud" interests companies have perfectly align with those about identifying users. It's frustrating knowing you can't rely on those e-mail providers alone due to the constant attempts to take them down by governments, but if they keep making the lives of people running them hell you won't even have that choice in the future, you own domain won't save you either.

 

[Rozzy]

Proton does not require a phone number. At least if you are in US.

Signed up to Proton through TOR, there were two options for verification, CAPTCHA and phone number so I chose the CAPTCHA option. There were two options for account recovery, phone number or non-Proton email (both optional), I chose the maybe later option.