Literally what is the point of this besides inducing users into expanding their future userbase? This is like the Simpsons spoof where the army gets elementary school kids to pre-enlist.
My first ever email is my first name that I lucked out on a very big domain and aside from the showoff of looking cool, it has been utterly destroyed by spam and people with the same name putting in a dummy email for whatever form they fill out.
So unless you want your kid to have some oddly specific and famous email address, there is zero difference in just making one when you need to.
Also:
Stronger legal protection
Your data is safeguarded under Switzerland’s strict privacy laws, some of the strongest in the world.
What a joke bruh. Piratebay had better OPSEC than these fed sucking morons, and they had their servers constantly seized after the USA got involved.
Proton folds under zero pressure when they so much as so get a hint of a warrant. Don’t even jump in here with a “Privacy is not Anonymity” and “muh Swiss laws” response. They specifically advertised such capability until the government came after them, and then only changed their policy after assisting them in providing access logs and fingerprint data for that french climate activist.
They know their marketing material makes it sound much better than it really is, and they know that no one reads the fine print. Metadata not being protected is a critical difference, and it’s how a solid chunk of the NSA’s data collection schemes function.
Imagine for a moment that you started an Anti-Google campaign and happened to have a protonmail account. They could just lobby the US government to go smack Switzerland’s face, and next thing you know you’re being detained in a 5 eyes country for exercising free speech, despite them claiming to only provide such metadata to police under “criminal activity”.
Encrypted email service ProtonMail has become embroiled in a minor scandal after responding to a legal request to hand over to Swiss police a user’s IP address and details of the devices he used to access his mailbox – resulting in the netizen’s arrest.
Back in January this year, the company’s homepage stated: “No personal information is required to create your secure email account. By default, we do not keep any IP logs which can be linked to your anonymous email account. Your privacy comes first.”
Today that boast has been replaced with a mealy-mouthed version: “ProtonMail is email that respects privacy and puts people (not advertisers) first. Your data belongs to you, and our encryption ensures that. We also provide an anonymous email gateway.”
Literally what is the point of this besides inducing users into expanding their future userbase? This is like the Simpsons spoof where the army gets elementary school kids to pre-enlist.
My first ever email is my first name that I lucked out on a very big domain and aside from the showoff of looking cool, it has been utterly destroyed by spam and people with the same name putting in a dummy email for whatever form they fill out.
So unless you want your kid to have some oddly specific and famous email address, there is zero difference in just making one when you need to.
Also:
What a joke bruh. Piratebay had better OPSEC than these fed sucking morons, and they had their servers constantly seized after the USA got involved.
Proton folds under zero pressure when they so much as so get a hint of a warrant. Don’t even jump in here with a “Privacy is not Anonymity” and “muh Swiss laws” response. They specifically advertised such capability until the government came after them, and then only changed their policy after assisting them in providing access logs and fingerprint data for that french climate activist.
They know their marketing material makes it sound much better than it really is, and they know that no one reads the fine print. Metadata not being protected is a critical difference, and it’s how a solid chunk of the NSA’s data collection schemes function.
Imagine for a moment that you started an Anti-Google campaign and happened to have a protonmail account. They could just lobby the US government to go smack Switzerland’s face, and next thing you know you’re being detained in a 5 eyes country for exercising free speech, despite them claiming to only provide such metadata to police under “criminal activity”.
Here’s an article clarifying the latter half of this comment’s claims: https://www.theregister.com/2021/09/07/protonmail_hands_user_ip_address_police/
Relevant bits from the article: