Comment by crossroadsguy
19 hours ago
That definitely doesn't look good for privacy POV. If they do not want abuse, they ought to use other means. They should not associate IPs with account creation. That is kind of scary. In fact, if what you have said is true, then one's account can be blocked by someone else's mischief on the same IP, which is not very uncommon at all i.e sharing the IP.
Proton is not a true privacy-advocate in my opinion.
I wanted to try Proton out when they were having a sale, but I could not complete the purchase because I was on Mullvad's VPN.
I created a ticket, and when they got back to me 5 days later, they told me to disconnect from the VPN to sign up for Proton.
They could take government ID, or fingerprint your machine, make you submit a picture of your face, do these options seem better to you?
Nope. Zero-knowledge proofs seem to be the middle ground, IMO. Prove X without revealing X itself.
How else?