Protonmail makes it harder on burners.
Protonmail announced they are now deleting inactive accounts, making it a huge pain in the ass for you to have many different free burner emails. As we all know, passive surveillance with email is a huge problem, as many dumb websites force insecure email authentication to login to their services. And so a single email provider can then easily see all your activity across the entire internet.
In order to evade this mass surveillance, many turn to many burner emails from Protonmail. Now Proton just announced they are cracking down on this to make this harder on you, by forcing you to keep a system to remember when accounts have to be logged into or be deleted, or you’ll lose access to your verification accounts.
Their new policy is pre-existing accounts from before the change have a longer grace period, so this encourages you to make less new burners. If one doesn’t wish to self-host, consider Simplified Privacy’s service to do the work for you. And you even get other services included such as docs (CryptPad) and chat (XMPP/SimpleX) on the same VPS. We're just 1 DM away.
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