Calling this strongarming seems more than a bit hyperbolic. It makes sense why they'd want people to add recovery options. I'm sure they get a lot of support requests for people locked out of accounts. Personally, I'd want recovery options for my email account, even at the cost of increasing my attack surface. It's a worthwhile tradeoff for me, and I suspect it is for most users too.

> Proton not being able to recover my data is the point!

I would be very surprised to find more than 20% of Proton Mail users sharing this viewpoint.

> And as for those who can't store their own password securely, they shouldn't be using Proton in the first place.

I think that the strongarming is a result of them actively trying to target the layman, them not wanting complaints from newbie users who lose their password. Not that that justifies it of course.

Kind of a dramatic title. If you're so concerned about it, couldn't you just make another proton email and link them to each other as recoveries?