[Please Read] Proton Mail requires human verification

Proton Mail requires human verification (SMS or email) to register a new account. What should I do? I want to create an email anonymously

Use one of your Gmail accounts as the recovery email, man or just rent a number for that.

It’s really not that complicated… you just need to decide which option you want to go with.

Most of the time you don’t even need to go through email or SMS verification to register... only the puzzle captcha and that’s it.

They usually ask for email or SMS only when setting up 2FA or recovery options. Try using a different account or a proxy to create the account again and it might not even ask for that step

SirTop said:

Use one of your Gmail accounts as the recovery email, man or just rent a number for that.

It’s really not that complicated… you just need to decide which option you want to go with.

Most of the time you don’t even need to go through email or SMS verification to register... only the puzzle captcha and that’s it.

They usually ask for email or SMS only when setting up 2FA or recovery options. Try using a different account or a proxy to create the account again and it might not even ask for that step

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One thing to add here is that, sometimes you can create proton email without an email verification at the signup step, but new accounts need to be verified in order to receive emails.

Use temporary SMS services, though they don’t always work with Proton

SirTop said:

Use one of your Gmail accounts as the recovery email, man or just rent a number for that.

It’s really not that complicated… you just need to decide which option you want to go with.

Most of the time you don’t even need to go through email or SMS verification to register... only the puzzle captcha and that’s it.

They usually ask for email or SMS only when setting up 2FA or recovery options. Try using a different account or a proxy to create the account again and it might not even ask for that step

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I successfully registered through Tor by filling in the captcha verification, and this time it didn’t ask for email or mobile number verification.
Do I need to fill in the account recovery options, since I’ve already chosen two recovery methods:

1. Recovery phrase
2. Device-based recovery

What should I do? If I use a recovery email address like Gmail, I would be traceable because I’ve used my real IP with it?

Biycchu said:

I successfully registered through Tor by filling in the captcha verification, and this time it didn’t ask for email or mobile number verification.
Do I need to fill in the account recovery options, since I’ve already chosen two recovery methods:

1. Recovery phrase
2. Device-based recovery

What should I do? If I use a recovery email address like Gmail, I would be traceable because I’ve used my real IP with it?

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I don’t know how sensitive your use of Protonmail needs to be but imo, it doesn’t really matter if you use Gmail or any other email account even temp emails.

It’s rare that you will need recovery access as long as you don’t lose your login details.

One thing thou is that Proton sometimes won't let verification emails or OTPs from some third-party sites to come in until you setup up recovery

Like... If you're signing up somewhere and they need to send a confirmation email it might not come through to your Protonmail especially if the account is newly created

I think this is something they do to prevent mass bot account creation and setting up a recovery email usually helps fix it