A lot of parents have a checklist of things they’ll need for their newborn baby when it arrives, and now there’s a new one: Reserving the kid’s email address. (???)
Parents can now reserve a Proton Mail address for a child and keep it sealed, no inbox, no activity logs, no profiling, for up to 15 YEARS, until the teenager is ready to use it.
There’s nothing stopping you from using Gmail or Outlook, but it’ll likely get jam-packed with junk mail and other nonsense, be tracked, and it could even be deleted if it’s left dormant for too long. Proton, which is based in Switzerland, uses end-to-end and zero-access encryption to guarantee private accounts.
All you do is: Claim your kid’s email address, and they’ll send YOU a voucher for them to activate it YEARS down the road. (Even if you lose that voucher, you’ll be able to get another.)
They just want a $1 donation to cover the service, and to prevent fraud.
Now: What email address are you going to pick that your future teenager WON’T hate, and refuse to use???
