so now proton completely blocking account creation through their onion adress? I have standard protection, javascript enabled. Time to swith for those who use this service as they are ditching tor and switzerland?
Just tested it, same here. Clearnet works but tor not. I will contact support since part of the reason I like to pay for unlimited is to subsidize free, anonymous accounts.
Edit: here is my other comment:
I previously commented I would write the support, now I actually read the docs first and found out why:
If you want to create an account over tor you can, just not via the clearnet URL, probably due to rate limiting by IP adress. However if you use their Onion Link as specified in this article by their support (https://proton.me/support/tor-setup) it works just fine (as far as I just tested). So great! Because using .onion services is far more secure than accessing clearnet over Tor anyway.
Here the url, verify it with the link in the support article tho: https://protonmailrmez3lotccipshtkleegetolb73fuirgj7r4o4vfu7ozyd.onion/
Okay, if they will responder faster than in one month you could publish the respond here if you will like to do it. But I am surr they will say it is a “technical error”. Every privacy leak now is described as technical error - apple, google, meta - all use this therm to justify their intentional action
Have you actually asked proton support about this issue, if so what have they said?
It seems like you got frustrated and instead of trying to get help you decided to complain on lemmy.
Hi, they have average response time 1 month. Probably it’is not useful when you want create account now, yes? “instead of trying to get help you decided to complain on lemmy” and what? proton blocked tor, it is their decision, it is not a bug. I have my other email provider so I do not need to beg proton to unblock tor registration. My objective was to inform lemmy users about this, I did not ask for help in my post as you noticed. If proton company is interested in their customers they can monitor such complaints but since they “cut their presence” on mastodon and opensource media platforms it will not happen.
The average response time is nowhere near a month.
It seems more and more this was a bad faith post. I’m not sure I believe you even use proton.
What makes you think this has anything to do with Tor?
Because i can easely create account on clearnet
That’s it?
What else should be tested? I think this guy deserves praise for his methods
Definitely a lot more than that should be tested before declaring they’re “ditching Tor”. If that’s what they were doing this site wouldn’t even exist.
I remember when they had an onion domain and the signup button would redirect you to the clearnet page for signup. Afaik it also did that bullshit at some other places. So I wouldn’t be surprised.
I previously commented I would write the support, now I actually read the docs first and found out why:
If you want to create an account over tor you can, just not via the clearnet URL, probably due to rate limiting by IP adress. However if you use their Onion Link as specified in this article by their support (https://proton.me/support/tor-setup) it works just fine (as far as I just tested). So great! Because using .onion services is far more secure than accessing clearnet over Tor anyway.
Here the url, verify it with the link in the support article tho: https://protonmailrmez3lotccipshtkleegetolb73fuirgj7r4o4vfu7ozyd.onion/
The onion link was used, please see my screenshot first…
Does anybody know valid alternatives to proton mail, I think they have been enshitified
I use posteo.de provider, it costs 1 eur for month, 3 adress, they have inbound encryption of emails as proton, also they dont accept crypto but you can pay by cash and card and “All of our payment methods are anonymised using a payment system developed by Posteo. We do not link payment information with email accounts.” You can learn more about their privacy features on their site https://posteo.de/en/site/features#featuresprivacy
Why are you trying to sign up for Proton if you already use another provider?
i’m sorry can’t you have multiple email accounts anymore? privacy and all that, remember?
Tuta ? But only for mail AFAIK.
Proton always felt like a scam to me. Their claims on privacy and security are questionable at best.
My issue exactly. Their marketing isn’t careful, which I would expect from a security focused business.
A lot of push against Proton on here lately. Makes me suspicious.
There’s been evidence in their github repo that they’re using LLMs to code their tools now.
It’s making me reconsider using them.
it should be possible to criticize a mail provider without being flooded by it’s evangelists. Especially proton, their image of privacy does not reflect reality at all
Not saying it’s some sort of conspiracy theory, but it do be kinda sus. People are just quick to hate Proton over anything. It’s like bias confirmation. They seem to be justifying their hatred, or looking for reasons to do so. I mean, “leaving Switzerland”? Really?! I thought that was because Switzerland was considering a privacy-unfriendly law. That’s bad, now?
