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Proton Mail says that the new Outlook app for Windows is Microsoft's new data collection service (www.ghacks.net)
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[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

You mean, other than being the most widespread method of account identification on the internet?

You need to have a method of uniquely identifying (and verifying) accounts and the other widespread method (phone numbers) is extremely privacy invasive because it's much harde or practically impossible to change phone number for most people.