How do you recover lost passwords?
Well there is an option to list a recovery email but it is not required.
As a follow-up to that I had quite many “junk” emails I used to sign up for sites and such. Some of them began their drive to collect more data and started required secondary email or cell #’s.
Almost weeks into that I began getting messages like “we have detected strange activity on your email account”, please confirm the account. Suddenly, a secondary email was not good enough, only a phone confirmation. Accounts I had for 15 years suddenly gone and could not be recovered until I gave them my cell. Never a problem with any of them before companies began being data gluttons.
This happened at aol, yahoo, mail.com, hotmail. So I have started using protonmail exclusively as my free email option.