Create a new account without email recovery?
-
Hello, I want to create a new email account with no links whatsoever to my other accounts (that I want to abandon) and I'm willing to give my phone number for the sake of recovery/validation but the recovery mail field is obligatory.
Is there something I can do? I want to start a fresh account with no links to gmail (this account is linked to a gmail account).
Thanks! -
@L3F20XX Thanks for reaching out. For security reason, it's not possible to enable such request. There are plenty of other email providers besides gmail that can be used to recover your password and username in case you loose them.
-
I see, seems like a weakness from my point of view, like your asuming the position of a secondary service provider.
Imagine you have a single outlook account and it gets hacked, you hear about Vivaldi mail so decide to create an address
"can't do it since you don't have an email"
That person won't create an outlook account to create a secondary Vivaldi account afterwards.Anyway, thanks for your reply!
-
@L3F20XX You can always use a disposable email, something like:
https://www.mailinator.com/v3/#/#inboxpane
https://manybrain.github.io/m8rdocs/#public-mailinator-all-email-mailinator-comBasically, the Inbox-name is the "password" so make it a long random string and save it somewhere. Obviously, this is still not safe, but it's great for "signing up" for services that require you to enter an email. Of course, it's probably not a great idea to use this for a recovery address but it can be done if you know what you're doing
Then again there are plenty of free and very secure email providers. Always a good to have an alternative in any case.
https://proprivacy.com/email/comparison/free-secure-email -
@Pathduck
Thanks! This is exactly what I needed. -
-