Proton Mail sucks now

[Jump]

It's a rip-off because gmail is free, and has all those features. I already have an alter-ego gmail address.

Gmail isn't free. Your the product.

 

[The Repeated Meme]

Gmail isn't free. Your the product.

Yes, I'm aware of that, which is why it's an alter ego email.

 

[The Connected Nose]

Just head over to 10minutemail.com and use that address. You only ever need it for verification anyway. That's how I signed up for the PM account I use for here and nowhere else.

 

[Magicicada_septendecula]

If you can read Russian at a very basic level, you can get yourself an email address with a cool Soviet .su TLD through Yandex. I got one of my own as [username]@email.su, but they also have ones like xaker.su and a few other hacker or Soviet themed domains. I really don't care if Putin can read my emails since I don't live in Russia or any country they are likely to invade.

 

[ToroidalBoat]

Your the product.

not with an ad blocker

 

[oh no its pipkun]

too bad lolcow.email is dead atm. honestly was pretty good with discord and social mefia.

 

[S3y88]

Same here, but keep in mind if you use an Android phone to make a Gmail account via app, Google will collect the hardware information of your phone for security purposes (Apple does this too with iCloud emails). So I hope you used a burner phone paid in cash if it's anything really private.

This seems like it would automatically attach your phone number to the email address.

i use Graphene so i don't think google stuff has access to much

 

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Had the same problem just now.

I also tried making a new Protonmail account but like OP it was asking me for verification. I only tried this once, but maybe the VPN IP I was using had been flagged for abuse or something. Thing is, this VPN I'm using is also Proton.

Granted I'm not very savvy with this stuff, but I've found it increasingly difficult to create throwaway E-mail accounts recently. Depending on what IP address I'm using, Gmail usually (but not always) asks for SMS verification, and with Outlook the actual homepage will sometimes just not load. With Tutanota I always get "this IP has been flagged for abuse".

EDIT - also Outlook will block your account pretty quickly if you try accessing it from too many different IP addresses.

I've been using Outlook lately for setting up email addresses that I want to 'look legitimate' to send certain emails. I haven't had any problems registering from VPN IPs (apart from that infuriating solar system captcha thing)- the only thing I've been forced to do is enter a backup email (which I did with a temporary email provider that lets you specify an arbitary string for the email, so if I do ever have to use it again I can actually get back in). No SMS verification required.

 

[DavidS877]

I seem to recall Josh saying there'x some problem between his email provider and cock.li, I don't think he is deliberately blocking them.

For my real accounts I own a domain and all email comes to me. This way I can signup as website@domain.com and know who sells my email address to spammers.

 

[Nuclear Poisoning]

I've been using Outlook lately for setting up email addresses that I want to 'look legitimate' to send certain emails. I haven't had any problems registering from VPN IPs (apart from that infuriating solar system captcha thing)-

The problem I have with the Outlook main page being erratic with loading may also have to do with my ancient laptop and my retardedness when it comes to understanding how a browser connects to a website. Protocols, https, DNS, still no clue how that all works. Maybe it's unrelated to the VPN I'm using.

the only thing I've been forced to do is enter a backup email (which I did with a temporary email provider that lets you specify an arbitary string for the email, so if I do ever have to use it again I can actually get back in). No SMS verification required.

When I need to enter a backup mail for Outlook I just setup a second Outlook account and use that for verification. The second one will eventually be disabled after seven days (unless I set up a third Outlook address) but it doesn't matter, the first one has a "verified" backup e-mail.

 

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When I need to enter a backup mail for Outlook I just setup a second Outlook account and use that for verification. The second one will eventually be disabled after seven days (unless I set up a third Outlook address) but it doesn't matter, the first one has a "verified" backup e-mail.

This seems like an unsafe idea to me unless you can re-set-up the second Outlook address if you ever need to get back into the first one and get the recovery prompt.