How to prevent this? Aging the account before using for registration?

>>106013621 (OP)
Let go already. E-mail has been dead for years, and if you think proton honors anonymity or any effectual measure of privacy, you fell for the meme.

>>106013733
I don't give a fuck about privacy larp, proton just happens to be a commonly whitelisted domain along with gmail, yahoo, outlook and the like

>>106013779
Whitelisted my ass. It's a honeypot cp dumpster. You're a normie, use g-mail like the rest of them.

>>106013823
>honeypot
proofs?

>>106013823
Yes obviously gmail is the gold standard, but proton is easier to make new accounts on.

>>106013848
Search the words protonmail and honeypot together on yandex.

>>106013621 (OP)
Create a Vivaldi, Tutanota or Posteo.de email address and use it to verify your Proton Mail address.

Why does it matter if an email provider is a honeypot? Nobody uses non work emails for communication anymore. I haven't used email for anything other than signing in to stuff in years because all communication happens on messaging apps now.

>>106013621 (OP)
neutralplier on the 'log

>>106013621 (OP)
correct

>>106014218
Won't work for new accounts. He has to create at the very least an email address at another email provider.

>>106014156
Tutanota says one free account per person and also 48 hour verification period.

>>106013733
>email has been dead for years
Anon, let me tell you a story, my story, the story of what happened less than a month ago

I was interested in Linux and security, and I switched to fedora Linux and fucking grapheneOS at the same exact time. I took proper precautions before doing so, I backed up my files, I made sure I knew all my passwords for everything, including my emails. Everything should have been a nice, smooth, easy transition. After all, I still haven't had any major problems with either one themselves.
Only.
The.
Emails.
I can't make phonecalls because the free app I used for a VOIP phone number requires my email, I can't check my medical appointments and have to trust on a whim that I wrote down the right dates, I can't call my mother on Facebook messenger because it will only log me in if I click the verification email, I can't play games to relax because steam also needs the verification link to be clicked to fucking log in.
And why, why oh why can't I log in to my email? Because the only options are to send a verification email to another fucking email that I can't access without sending a verification email to the first email address, or the other option, to send a code to the phone number I can't access without fucking logging in to my email.

Email isn't fucking dead, emails just aren't used to communicate anymore.

>>106014360
I knew we hit rock bottom when e-mail services started requiring pre-existing third party e-mail addresses for registration.

>>106014460
if you make a free email service you will get raped by bots
only reason shit like cock.li can exist is because their domains have like the worst reputation in the world

>>106014360
this is all because the NSA want to tie together all your accounts to one dossier

>>106014696
I ran my own server for a while, and everybody would validate my mx records prior to 2009, then something happened and that was the end of it.