• azalty@jlai.lu
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    2 months ago

    Proton does require a recovery email address if you sign up to a mail forwarding service or similar, right after creating the account. In that case the account remains locked if you don’t, so that’s just a lie

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      2 months ago

      In the article it says that that’s a one-time verification address. Though that leaves the question if/how long it’s stored