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> 1. Am asked to verify new account by entering a cell phone (bogus)

Interestingly the sentence on their front page, right before the most commonly quoted snippet in this thread, is:

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

A phone number is quite a personal, unique identifier.

That's a great point. This should be better publicized. Protonmail requires a phone number to register through Tor.

This is completely false. I have created accounts (for others) over tor, without ever divulging a number. The exit node is a factor here. Sometimes email is required; if the need is there, throwaway emails work. I hate to tragedy-of-the-commons a good service, though, which is why I have a subscription.

Can you do it now?

Yep- just did. Took two tries to find a temp mail that wasn't blocked. No phone required.

For those concerned about using a temp mail site, it's only used to verify the account; it can never be used to recover it.

But the account is made and I can log into it just fine, perfectly accessible.

Protonmail required me to enter a phone number to create an account.

I just did it yesterday. The text from them says "Your Proton verification code is: ######"

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