so now proton completely blocking account creation through their onion adress? I have standard protection, javascript enabled. Time to swith for those who use this service as they are ditching tor and switzerland?
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Is it that maybe someone on your exit node is trying to enumerate valid accounts?
I have tried a new circuite before publish this post - without success. but considering that I use their onion adress they could nit see my tor exit node as far as I now, anyway.
Good point, but also who is enumerating the accounts may have been using many circuits.
Yeah, I’ve had to go through 20 or 30 circuits once to make Google’s captcha allow me through. It just failed with the message “Unusual traffic from your computer network”. Someone was probably running a botnet, as this only happens rarely. If Google wanted to block Tor, they’d have done so by now anyway.
He used the onion address, which doesn’t go through an exit node like regular darknet-to-clearnet traffic.
and what can they apply that limit to, if not to all tor visitors? It’s not like they can distinguish them.
Have you actually asked proton support about this issue, if so what have they said?
It seems like you got frustrated and instead of trying to get help you decided to complain on lemmy.
Hi, they have average response time 1 month. Probably it’is not useful when you want create account now, yes? “instead of trying to get help you decided to complain on lemmy” and what? proton blocked tor, it is their decision, it is not a bug. I have my other email provider so I do not need to beg proton to unblock tor registration. My objective was to inform lemmy users about this, I did not ask for help in my post as you noticed. If proton company is interested in their customers they can monitor such complaints but since they “cut their presence” on mastodon and opensource media platforms it will not happen.
proton blocked tor, it is not a bug
How do you know?
is it joke? please see the pic attached to the post, if you not believe try by yourserf
The average response time is nowhere near a month.
It seems more and more this was a bad faith post. I’m not sure I believe you even use proton.
Look, for me it is not important if you believe me or not. I dont beg yout to ditch protonmail
You say that and yet you feel the need to respond and down vote.
Just lets dont play Hannibal Lecter’s dialogue and stop conversation.
So odd how this works for everyone else who tries it and support answers them in less then a months time…
Do not believe other, try by yourself.
You are blocked for lack of interest in conversation.
What makes you think this has anything to do with Tor?
Because i can easely create account on clearnet
That’s it?
What else should be tested? I think this guy deserves praise for his methods
Definitely a lot more than that should be tested before declaring they’re “ditching Tor”. If that’s what they were doing this site wouldn’t even exist.
I remember when they had an onion domain and the signup button would redirect you to the clearnet page for signup. Afaik it also did that bullshit at some other places. So I wouldn’t be surprised.
what purpose of the site if you cant use it for registration? regarding your notice reddit has onion site too for example but after I cant login to my account after sign up too… facebook has onion site too but if you sign up through onion site they will restrict your account and ask for id… So maybe its not something that important?
what purpose of the site if you cant use it for registration?
I’m saying the site not working is likely unintentional, and the result of some sort of technical error.
I previously commented I would write the support, now I actually read the docs first and found out why:
If you want to create an account over tor you can, just not via the clearnet URL, probably due to rate limiting by IP adress. However if you use their Onion Link as specified in this article by their support (https://proton.me/support/tor-setup) it works just fine (as far as I just tested). So great! Because using .onion services is far more secure than accessing clearnet over Tor anyway.
Here the url, verify it with the link in the support article tho: https://protonmailrmez3lotccipshtkleegetolb73fuirgj7r4o4vfu7ozyd.onion/
The onion link was used, please see my screenshot first…
Huh, that’s wierd. Because it worked for me… they must be rate limiting Tor.
I checked that (together with the clearnet link) a few times recently, got a nondescript error like “sorry something went wrong” every time.
Just tested it, same here. Clearnet works but tor not. I will contact support since part of the reason I like to pay for unlimited is to subsidize free, anonymous accounts.
Edit: here is my other comment:
I previously commented I would write the support, now I actually read the docs first and found out why:
If you want to create an account over tor you can, just not via the clearnet URL, probably due to rate limiting by IP adress. However if you use their Onion Link as specified in this article by their support (https://proton.me/support/tor-setup) it works just fine (as far as I just tested). So great! Because using .onion services is far more secure than accessing clearnet over Tor anyway.
Here the url, verify it with the link in the support article tho: https://protonmailrmez3lotccipshtkleegetolb73fuirgj7r4o4vfu7ozyd.onion/
Okay, if they will responder faster than in one month you could publish the respond here if you will like to do it. But I am surr they will say it is a “technical error”. Every privacy leak now is described as technical error - apple, google, meta - all use this therm to justify their intentional action
A while back I tried to create an account with vpn and got notice that said something about how I couldn’t use it to validate other accounts without validating that account because other companies had threatened to label them as untrustworthy or spam.
I got that same error when I was setting up my account.
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Change your route, people using tor with the same exit as you are doing too many username checks.
As a said inmyp previous comment onion site was used so they dont have access to info and ip of my exit node, and,anywaty, I have tried to change circuit and access again but without success.
While on dread recently I stumbled across this old post regarding issues with their onion adresses https://encryp.ch/blog/disturbing-facts-about-protonmail/
When a user makes a new account with Protonmail on TOR they are re-directed from Protonmail’s “.onion” to “.com” address. This breaks your secure encrypted connection to their onion address, enabling your identification. There are absolutely no technical reasons for this feature. In fact, the only other websites that operate like this are suspected NSA/CIA Honeypots.
Goddamn. We live in a nightmare. There is someone fucking us all every goddamn second of the day.
Yes, I knew this info, there is a lot of strange things with company
