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by slips 2558 days ago
Protonmail does those thongs to try and prevent bad actors or bots from making encrypted accounts to hide their shady tracks. Not for data collection that they'll sell for a profit. Don't be so glib as to state you can't see the difference.
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From their home page:

> Secure Your Communications with ProtonMail

> Anonymous Email

> No personal information is required to create your secure email account.

requires personal information to create the secure email account

"Protonmail does those thongs to try and prevent bad actors or bots from making encrypted accounts to hide their shady tracks."

oh okay, pack it up everyone, don't listen to glib ole me coming to a rational conclusion

its IRONIC that I have to trust them as much as I have to trust Gmail confidential's claims about what they may actually do with the data collection. or what they may be coerced to do with the data collection. "Swiss law" doesn't prevent that.

The point is they flat out lie in this article about requiring it.