I did skip some details, I should have also added that proton uses phone numbers to verify you are not a bot when you attempt to be anonymous. It is possible to use a burner email from disroot (or non-proton) but that was such a headache I never want to attempt again since even tuta locked my account. I used disroot because the normal burner email I use wasn't getting their code. They lock your account immediately if you use Tor or ironically their own vpn service when you sign up. You can use burner codes like smspool or juicysms at least. You can't use crypto as your first payment method either (if that's important to you). You should also never enter an actual recovery email because that will be handed over in a raid.

Which is why I recommend most people use Mullvad instead of this headache and offer AirVPN as a different alternative if you must torrent with port forwarding. My usage of proton has turned me anti-proton lmao. Their linux support kinda sucks too. If I had to do it again, I would have avoided proton's vpn.