• surph_ninja@lemmy.world
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    4 个月前

    Too bad private email access is essentially dead. Any service not requiring another email or phone number to sign up gets quickly shut down. A casualty in the war on whistleblowers.

      • Em Adespoton@lemmy.ca
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        4 个月前

        Exactly; email is digital post cards and always has been.

        Of course, that means I can encrypt a message and use someone else’s email account to send it :)

        • red@lemmy.zip
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          4 个月前

          you still can, it was a bug in past that they fixed long ago

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            4 个月前

            it’s not a bug and it’s still not possible, it’s for tracking who created the account of course.

            • _cryptagion [he/him]@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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              4 个月前

              It is possible, I just signed up for one recently while using Tails. I was not required to use either email or phone number. Stop spreading misinformation.

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                  4 个月前

                  They said any service gets shut down. I registered a ProtonMail account without email or phone number. Proton also does not cooperate with anyone but Swiss authorities. It is obviously still possible.

                  You can also register without one on cock.li, if you don’t mind them being edgy middle-aged teenagers.

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                    4 个月前

                    All services do eventually shut down, possibly moreso for higher privacy services, you might just disagree on when.

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            4 个月前

            Try it now. Load up a tor tab in the Brave browser, and try signing up for an email without providing any info.

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              4 个月前

              yes I just did, not brave but tor browser and I was able to create account

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                4 个月前

                I just loaded up a Linux vm with Brave, and tried to sign up in a tor window. It requires a verification email to sign up.

                Maybe you’re using a browser or OS that it’s tracking.

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                  4 个月前

                  yeah I’m using tor browser, also don’t forget you can get fingerprinted even on tor

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                  4 个月前

                  It does not, this is misinformation. Do not believe this person, I recently did it on Tails while using Tor and did not need email or phone number.

      • Luffy@lemmy.ml
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        4 个月前

        Yes, tho it days it dosent store it, ill leave it up to you what you do whit that.

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          They do store it and have provided it to authorities in the past. In their defense, modern laws require you to hand over any data you have or get shut down. But they already knew that, yet choose to ask for it anyways knowing that they have to give it away if asked to.

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            4 个月前

            i guess corpos gonna corpo folks… even the “good” ones

            i did not realize you needed anything to create rando emails. i know google started that shit 5 years ago tho

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            4 个月前

            As far as I understand it, this is only recovery emails and I think it explicitly has some sort of warning about this when setting it. This is different than the email prompt on sign up.

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              I didn’t even know it asked for an email for sign up. I just remember the recovery email.

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              I wouldn’t trust them not to store the initial one as well tbh. Nothing technically stops that and it’s in their interests.

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                They don’t ask for one on signup. I just signed up recently while using Tor on Tails, and was not required to provide an email for any reason. The only thing that happens is you get a warning in the account panel saying you won’t be able to recover your account if you lose the recovery codes.

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            4 个月前

            They provided it to Swiss authorities, with a notice that it happened to their customers. They do not have any requirement to share it with other governments.