protonmail, 2 months ago

@johnnydecimal Note that your recovery address is also your notification address: https://proton.me/support/providing-a-notificationreset-email-address. This is not a new setting, it has been so for years now. We'll pass your feedback on to our team internally.

johnnydecimal, 2 months ago

@protonmail You don’t think it directly conflicts with your privacy-first stance?

I don’t understand how anyone there thinks that this is a good idea.

protonmail, 2 months ago

@johnnydecimal Note that this functionality doesn't share any of the content of your emails in the Proton Mail inbox with your recovery email address. The address itself needs to be known anyway, otherwise it wouldn't be possible to use it when the need for a recovery arises.

We understand that some of our users wish to avoid this, which is why we provide other recovery methods:
phone number and recovery phrase: https://proton.me/support/set-account-recovery-methods