Proton Mail came under scrutiny for its role in a legal request by the Spanish authorities leading to the identification and arrest of a user.

Bro this reads like an ad. You using VPN has nothing to do with YOU losing your password.

Edit: might add this is the classic bad user you see in tech support.

CAPS ON

types password

Login failed

tries the same password several times

gets locked out

blames the service

Lmao you’re right. Removed the first part. It came to look like an ad because I posted my first thought, then came back with my second one and appended it.

As far as the password goes, to this day I have no idea how it happened. I don’t want to admit I use the same password for everything, but ye know… it just stopped working for Proton one day.

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