@alshafei People should be told more often that protonmail is not for anonymity, rather its sole use case is sending encrypted mail without having to orchestrate pgp between parties. And, largely for mail within the bounds of the platform, much like Signal with texts. The catch with both is that you benefit from their "vendor lock-in" (not really lock-in). If you're a radical activist/organizer you can still get fucked over by subject lines, IP addresses, mail sent to non-PM addresses (assuming you don't use the password-protect email feature), and anything else that can be used to possibly identify you.
You could use Protonmail in an anonymous fashion but that requires setup and practices outside of it.
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