• Spedwell@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    That’s significantly worse privacy-wise, since Google gets a copy of everything.

    A recovery email in this case was used to uncover the identity of the account-holder. Unless you’re using proton mail anonymously (if you’re replacing your personal gmail, then probably not) then you don’t need to consider the recover email as a weakness.

    • NeatNit@discuss.tchncs.de
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      6 months ago

      That’s significantly worse privacy-wise, since Google gets a copy of everything.

      Obviously, but I still haven’t gone through all the things I’ve ever signed up to and changed my email to the proton one. When I sign up to new stuff I use Proton, this is a necessary step for transition… And one that is likely to stay in place for a very long time since I’m going to keep procrastinating it.

      Unless you’re using proton mail anonymously then you don’t need to consider the recover email as a weakness.

      Excellent point.