Their ToS only allow one account per person…
Does anyone here have more than 1 free account on such platforms?
Has there been cases where people got banned for having more than 1 free account?
Why should you have multiple free accounts?
I kinda get it for people who want to compartmentalise their email.
I personally have 1 email I only use for banks and other important logins, and then a second one that is a bit more general use.
really?
protonmail has a “switch account” function. i would never pay the bastards and have two acocounts. no problem.
Probably nothing would happen to you. They might correlate your IP address and ban you, but that’s likely it.
However, don’t do that. Servers aren’t free, and if people abuse the charity of these services, they’ll stop offering free options for everyone.
If you need extra addresses, use something like https://addy.io/. if you need more storage, might be worth considering self-hosting your email.
Probably nothing would happen to you. They might correlate your IP address and ban you, but that’s likely it.
I mean, that’s probably the worst thing that can happen to your email, lol. Consider how much your online life depends on access to your email.
Due to CGNAT it’s likely to have up to hundreds or thousands of unrelated customers sharing an IPv4 address
Perhaps, but if I connect from my IP and then 30sec later to a different account on the same IP, and that happens routinely for the same accounts, one could reasonably assume it was potentially one person using two accounts.
You could circumvent that with a VPN, since those IP ranges are usually known and known to be shared, but probably not with a residential IP address.
Anyway, it’s just a guess. I don’t know with any certainty how they might sus out somebody breaking the policy. I just believe that if they find people doing that with regularity, the free tier many people enjoy can be revoked, and so it would be a dick move to try to abuse account creation.
Sure, but on my WiFi network with my flat mates there would be like five concurrently logged in email accounts constantly connected and receiving traffic from proton. And then behind CGNAT that might extend to a hundred people concurrently logged in with one IP.
The false positives would drive away so many more paying or future paying customers it wouldn’t be worth trying
Only thing I can think of is fingerprinting devices but then that’d be obvious, break their business model and also drive away customers
Sure but they probably make more than enough money. Email is really cheap to run
Perhaps, but you’re just guessing. I don’t know their operating costs, and I would suspect that neither do you.
If you know better, please enlighten me.
Proton is CIA
idk if i would inherently say that, but the CEO does have some worms in his brain so there’s that.
