Thanks for this.
I have only good words to say about Proton. I've been using their secure (and free) webmail service without problems. It's the cleanest and most security-oriented webmail service I've found. OTOH, in most free services, the product is YOU, but I'd like to think Proton is an exception.
Yeah. I mostly trust them. But of course there are rumors. Whatever... we do the best we can. And their stuff is as good as google's but with (possibly) less spying.
It is interesting... most people do not realize what we have lost as email has been 100% captured. The WWW started out captured basically... but email? It was a cypherpunk protocol really. Just needed the users to encrypt their data.
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But this webwallet seems legit at a glance, and correctly implimented... And this is what Proton promises us they do (trust!). So it is the original intent right? Hopefully. I actually upgraded to a paid plan ENTIRELY to support them, and so I had more space (so not entirely out of ideals?). They also have storage thing (like google drive) that is supposed to be similarly secure. I use that too...
I've been thinking about subscribing to a Proton paid plan, but there's an important issue: do they accept anonymous subscriptions (e.g., payment in cash sent to a physical address, or in Monero)? If not, then I simply cannot pay them, because paying them would reveal my identity, thus negating the very purpose of using Proton.
Sweden-based
Mullvad VPN offers anonymous payments, and does this very efficiently. You just send cash anonymously to a postal address in Sweden, or pay with Monero (or Bitcoin, but Bitcoin is not really anonymous). There's no need to give an email address. Your account is a 16-digit, randomly generated number. That's all there is to it. Clean, simple, anonymous. As all such services should be. I urge everyone to try their service.