I’m not ready to drop reddit entirely and to create accounts there I need an email address. I don’t want to disclose my phone number or any other personal information.

I tried i2p, but for whatever reason, mail from reddit doesn’t get its way to the inbox.

What other providers could I use?

  • Lvxferre@lemmy.ml
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    5 months ago

    Create your account through old.reddit.com; when it asks you for an email, simply press “next”. And, if you need an e-mail provider for some other reason, protonmail.com doesn’t ask you for your phone number.

    That said do you really need a reddit account?

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      They’ve recently restricted even viewing if you’re using a VPN and not logged in to Reddit. I’ve clicked a couple search results and gotten an annoying message. It’s frustrating that people used Reddit forever helping each other and they are slowly creating walls to access for monetization

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    Its been a few years since I checked, but Reddit traditionally has not required an email. You can just leave the field blank and click next and it’ll let you create an account anyway. The UX is a dark pattern.

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      Last I heard, the rules were more strict on the redesign – but old Reddit still let you sign up without email

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    Doesn’t Firefox now include an email spoofer by default?

    It keeps popping up to ask me on singup screens, and the one time I tried it seems to just provide a valid email and a forwarding service for TFA. I don’t know if it’ll work with Reddit or how effective the service is, though.

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    Try Firefox relay. It can set you up with a randomly generated email address that will forward to your regular email.

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    5 months ago

    Just use mailinator or any of it’s alt websites. Sure, it’s not like it’s secure or anything because it’s a public inbox, but I always end up making a zillion different accounts anyway.

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    5 months ago

    I use m.kuku.lu, but if you plan to have more permanent account on there, like me, there’s one problem it has. It NEVER invalidates old cookie tokens, even after a password change. This means if you get compromised or forget to logout on someone else’s computer, there’s nothing you can do about it.

    Edit: Forget it, they recently added “Log out on all devices” button.

    Edit 2: At the bottom of https://aquapal.net/ it also says they use solar power, if you care about that.