[ridgered4]

I was until recently using protonmail for throwaway email addresses for various web forums as it allowed a captcha verification during creation. Every other one I'd tried demands SMS verification these days, which is right out. But proton mail recently changed and requires SMS or another email now, I believe they say it is to combat bots.

I tried tutanota but it refuses to create an account at all over a VPN, or at least the VPNs I've used. At least it told me the reason it was a no go here instead of silently failing.

Anyone have any recommendations in this space?

[lolinder]

I use Fastmail's aliases. It's not secure if you're trying to hide from state actors (your identities will be tied together in Fastmail's servers), but it's good enough for "I don't trust this forum not to get hacked and leak my email".

[shubhamkrm]

If it’s really a throwaway (just a one time use for creating an account), I simply use 10minutemail.com

[throw101010]

Many websites now refuse to create an account for you if your email uses a more exotic domain, or especially the domains used by the many temporary email address providers unfortunately.

[jaywalk]

My email's domain is as exotic as it gets (I own it, and I'm the only one using it) and I've yet to encounter a website that rejects it.

Temporary email address providers though, yeah. I've seen plenty of rejects with those.

[tingle]

Were you using Tor Browser ? From Switzerland, I can create free Proton accounts by solving a captcha, if I'm using Safari or Firefox. But if I use Tor on the same computer, the only option is to enter a phone number.

[ridgered4]

No, just VPN. Although my endpoint wasn't Switzerland. I still had email verification as an option in my case.

This was a very recent (within last week) change I noticed though.

[wbsss4412]

Why not use an email aliasing service instead of continually making throwaway emails?