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?
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?
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
My guy, reddit doesn’t even care if your email is valid. Just use some keyboard spam like aocjd@sjd.aa, it will accept it
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.
Last I heard, the rules were more strict on the redesign – but old Reddit still let you sign up without email
That changed some time ago. Around the death of i.reddit iirc
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.
Try Firefox relay. It can set you up with a randomly generated email address that will forward to your regular email.
I have heard of proton mail but haven’t tried it
I love it so much. My inbox has been entirely free of spam, and I love the simple design.
Skiff is another good option.
Mailfence
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.
Try using simplelogin and configure it to your email provider you already have.
Guérilla mail
You can also just create an email alias for free with simple login (now run by proton, ie. Proton mail)
The last time I used the registry process, Outlook didn’t.
