Hi,

I wanted to contact the owner/administrator of a website. Unfortunately, they didn’t provide any means of contact ( email, phone number, online form, simpleX whatsoever).

So the only alternative that I had thought was to create a Mastodon account and publish an open communication with them tagged. ( who know with a bit of luck. )

Unfortunately, to create a Mastodon account, you have to provide an email 📧 address 😞 The problem with email address is that it can be correlated to track you down and more… there are so many examples online, I will not cover this here.

So the workaround is to create a new email address dedicated just for that usage or service. But it’s becoming merely impossible to create a free email account somewhere without giving up your identity. (phone number, ISP[1] email address, paying online with Fiat[2] , Cloudflare or whatever trick )

I’ve seen already few posts about this subject on lemmy and other platforms

some quote from those links

Like it or not, email is a critical part of our digital lives. It’s how we sign up for accounts, get notifications, and communicate with a wide range of entities online. Critics of email rightfully point out that email suffers from a significant number of flaws that make it less than ideal, but that doesn’t change the current reality. In light of that reality, I believe that an encrypted email provider is a must-have for everyone in today’s age of rampant data breaches, insider threats, warrantless police access, and targeted advertising.

All the providers listed around the WWW are wrong ! Either they ask to identify yourself, or if you use Tor, you are blocked, or you cannot use it to register to any service online (third party).

See the table below \

Do not hesitate to propose any other, or maybe you have another solution ? Like self hosting email service ? I already dig up a little bit, but I found this and it looks scary. Thank you GAFAM…

So maybe it doesn’t look like much? But actually, it’s blocking me more and more. I cannot move/interact on internet or in real life ! because I get often “You have to register online” and that registration come with mandatory email…

Where I live, you better stay anonymous. Because what you say can definitely strike back to you. There is no freedom of speech. Please help to make internet free again.

Because we need it in our daily life and social interactions…

Thanks

mailbox•org 🤔

  • not free, only accept Fiat
  • last check: 2026-05-21

Which payment methods can I use?

Cash by post (By letter and EURO banknotes only - no cheques)

Cash deposit into our bank account

 

disroot•com ❌

  • Require a identification email address

 

gmx•com ❌

  • various blocking methods ( depending on IP )

  • last check: 2026-05-20  

inleed•com ❌

  • Require a identification email address

  • last check: 2026-05-21

 

mailo•com ❌

  • Do not accept 3th-party registration email for an unknown period

  • currently down

  • last check: 2026-05-20

 

mailfence•com ❌

  • Need to provide another e-mail address XD

  • last check: 2026-05-21

proton•me ❌

  • Do not accept 3th-party registration email
  • last check: 2026-05-20

 

tuta•com ❌

  • IP blocking

  • TOR forbidden

  • last check: 2026-05-20

  1. Internet Service Provider ↩︎

  2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fiat_money ↩︎

      • toebert@piefed.socialEnglish
        1·
        2 days ago

        I don’t understand your wording of what that limitation is.

        My best guess would be that you mean you want to use a custom domain for the email address…?

        • Rick_C137@programming.devOP
          1·
          2 days ago

          So I rephrase,
          it means that if you subscribe to another web service/website ( F*cebook, mastodon …) whatever and you receive an email to confirm your registration with that service, the email provider will block, freeze, or ban you. \

          I hope it’s more clear now

          • toebert@piefed.socialEnglish
            1·
            1 day ago

            Thank you, that makes more sense. Proton has an article on this (https://proton.me/support/human-verification) and it does imply your use of tor will trigger it (as opposed to only requiring captcha).

            My only 3 ideas are:

            1. Some search results indicate that upgrading to a paid account removes this issue on proton, but it seems the wording for this on the page above was removed. If you’re willing to try spending some money on it you can try upgrading the proton account with crypto (buy bitcoin with monero?) and pay for a month?

            2. Try if they accept adding a verification email from an anonymous provider, or another provider which would do this?

            3. If you plan on/have the option to go on a holiday check which countries allow buying prepaid SIM cards for cash without ID and pick one up to pass the verification on one of these providers?

            • Rick_C137@programming.devOP
              0·
              19 hours ago

              Thanks for your 3 propositions 👍

              1. so paid, can only be with an anonymous crypto like Monero otherwise it’s pointless
              2. can you rephrase ?
              3. That’s an ideas, but one might need to create new e-mail every week :)
              • toebert@piefed.socialEnglish
                1·
                15 hours ago

                On 1, would it not work if you created a new bitcoin wallet, then bought bitcoin with monero and used that bitcoin to pay? I understand BTC isn’t anonymous, but if you fund the wallet only with BTC purchased via monero and don’t re-use the wallet it shouldn’t identify you.

                On 2, I meant to test if proton mail (or one of the other providers where the only issue is needing another email address) accepts adding a verification email address to the proton account (which in theory passes the human verification check), where the verification email address is from for example disroot, or from one of the anonymous mail providers. Basically just a test if the human verification check can be circumvented with another provider that would do the human verification check or similar, maybe there is a gap in the validation for one of them.

                Does that make sense?

                Either way, if you need this to be anonymous and also rotate the account with a high frequency like weekly, probably neither of those will remain feasible even if one of them would maybe work once.