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Proton Mail Discloses User Data Leading to Arrest in Spain (restoreprivacy.com)

submitted 7 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 7 months ago (1 children)

That's significantly worse privacy-wise, since Google gets a copy of everything.

A recovery email in this case was used to uncover the identity of the account-holder. Unless you're using proton mail anonymously (if you're replacing your personal gmail, then probably not) then you don't need to consider the recover email as a weakness.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 7 months ago

That's significantly worse privacy-wise, since Google gets a copy of everything.

Obviously, but I still haven't gone through all the things I've ever signed up to and changed my email to the proton one. When I sign up to new stuff I use Proton, this is a necessary step for transition... And one that is likely to stay in place for a very long time since I'm going to keep procrastinating it.

Unless you're using proton mail anonymously then you don't need to consider the recover email as a weakness.

Excellent point.