<story><title>Climate activist arrested after ProtonMail provided his IP address</title><url>https://twitter.com/tenacioustek/status/1434604102676271106</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>shiado</author><text>I once tried to create a Protonmail account over TOR and I believe they require a phone number from &amp;#x27;malicious&amp;#x27; IPs so if you want anonymity Protonmail is not the service for you.</text></item><item><author>istingray</author><text>Disclaimer: Paying Protonmail customer&lt;p&gt;Their homepage says &amp;quot;By default, we do not keep any IP logs&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;In 2021, any soft language like this should be a red flag for anyone who is against surveillance. Maybe in 2018 it was good enough. But in 2021 it&amp;#x27;s not. Come on, Protonmail, you&amp;#x27;re supposed to be leading the way  -- don&amp;#x27;t make me figure it out myself.&lt;p&gt;Replace immediately with &amp;quot;By default we don&amp;#x27;t log IP, but may be required to by local law enforcement. We recommend everyone connect through Protonmail through Tor. This month, 60% of our users connected through Tor&amp;quot;.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>istingray</author><text>Yes, Protonmail requires a phone number to register over Tor!&lt;p&gt;Even though they claim no identity is required to register.&lt;p&gt;I confirmed this today when I created a fresh Protonmal account over Tor: 
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<story><title>Climate activist arrested after ProtonMail provided his IP address</title><url>https://twitter.com/tenacioustek/status/1434604102676271106</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>shiado</author><text>I once tried to create a Protonmail account over TOR and I believe they require a phone number from &amp;#x27;malicious&amp;#x27; IPs so if you want anonymity Protonmail is not the service for you.</text></item><item><author>istingray</author><text>Disclaimer: Paying Protonmail customer&lt;p&gt;Their homepage says &amp;quot;By default, we do not keep any IP logs&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;In 2021, any soft language like this should be a red flag for anyone who is against surveillance. Maybe in 2018 it was good enough. But in 2021 it&amp;#x27;s not. Come on, Protonmail, you&amp;#x27;re supposed to be leading the way  -- don&amp;#x27;t make me figure it out myself.&lt;p&gt;Replace immediately with &amp;quot;By default we don&amp;#x27;t log IP, but may be required to by local law enforcement. We recommend everyone connect through Protonmail through Tor. This month, 60% of our users connected through Tor&amp;quot;.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dangero</author><text>If they don’t do this then spammers will use their service en masse and degrade the service for all customers by black holing their ips and domain through all other email providers.</text></comment>