You can create accounts on onions so why would it redirect to clearnet. When accesing clearnet sites in tor it has to use a exit node and most exit nodes are most likely runned by law inforcements. I guess it does not really matter what you use since you shouldn't really send messages over email anyways. Only to create accounts that most likely can identify you

[–] twei@feddit.de 1 points 1 year ago

and most exit nodes are most likely runned by law inforcements

and why would you care about that? the protonmail site is using https (which is something that MO has criticised on the onion site for some reason), so the law enforcement would have what? the ip of the middle-node, the ip of the package-destination, and the date the package was sent? that's not really that much metadata tbh.

anyways yeah we should switch away from email to something like matrix ASAP, but tbh that won't happen anytime soon