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by 2aa07e2 3015 days ago
Just a note to anybody who wants to try their free tier, they add a tapatalk-like message in every e-mail you send ('this email was sent via protonmail' or something in that nature), unless you pay.

It's not like the e-mail receivers couldn't already see the host, but I was unaware of that when I was registering an account, so I'm calling that a dark pattern.

At least it was easy to self-delete it afterwards.

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It is just a default email signature that you can see in your compose window and delete manually if you do not wish to pay.
No, it is not. It is not related to the signature settings anymore.
It is. They add it automatically on mobile but you can delete it. And it's never on desktop. Just tried to send from both clients and didn't have any extra added to the message.
When was your account created? Mine was created in the previous 30 days.

I even had brought up the browser's dev tools and tried to disable that setting but with no luck. It might had been a A/B test, or specific only to my country, but the point remains that it was a separate setting than the signature and it was impossible to disable it without paying. On desktop.

Are you still able to manually delete the added line from your email messages at compose time?
Thank you for sticking with me, I'll try to create a new account in a few days. I don't rule out the possibility I am wrong about this.