Just that, anyone know of a free email provider that doesn’t make you give up a phone number? In this case, I’d rather sacrifice a second factor of authentication and avoid linking the phone.
Why would someone provide free email without monetizing whatever data they can grab? Apparently, they wouldn’t.
I just registered an outlook.com account and it didn’t ask for any phone info.
Did ask for my time zone, but nothing else.
email.com by 1&1 ionis doesn’t require phone verification. that said, email.com has had security breaches in the past, so don’t use it for stuff like banking or crypto coins.
Great. Now just prepare yourself for a monthly UI change if outlook.com is anything like their other cloud offerings.
I wish I was joking.
Just for the record, I got two new addresses in two days before outlook.com started demanding a phone number. I guess that was spam-like activity since the requests all came from the same IP address? Anyway, this is just detail.
(I was setting up four Twitter accounts, each with its own email address – as demanded by Twitter – so I could offer them as a choice to the person I’m setting them up for, but instead I’m just picking one and going with it, which is close enough. I might have run into trouble with the original plan anyway since Twitter does require a phone number and might have balked at it being used multiply.)
Just checked mine, no phone number.
get reported ONCE by a nazi or like a comment that says “trans rights”, twitter will demand phone verification.
(I get hit with Twitter verification checks 3x a day these days)
WTF, Twitter? (As spoken thousands of times a day.)
I know it’s not for everyone, and it’s certainly not free, but it’s relatively easy enough to set up a linode or digitalocean node with mail-in-a-box.
1&1 offers 1 free hosted exchange 2013 email inbox with every domain, plus unlimited email aliases.
RiseUp is pretty decent for a host as is the Pirate Party of Germany.