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[–] hugealligator379@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 month ago (2 children)

As far as I understand it, this is only recovery emails and I think it explicitly has some sort of warning about this when setting it. This is different than the email prompt on sign up.

[–] tekato@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I didn’t even know it asked for an email for sign up. I just remember the recovery email.

[–] _cryptagion@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 1 month ago

You don’t have to have one, this is misinformation.

[–] EngineerGaming@feddit.nl 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I wouldn't trust them not to store the initial one as well tbh. Nothing technically stops that and it's in their interests.

[–] _cryptagion@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 month ago

They don’t ask for one on signup. I just signed up recently while using Tor on Tails, and was not required to provide an email for any reason. The only thing that happens is you get a warning in the account panel saying you won’t be able to recover your account if you lose the recovery codes.