
Big tech companies don’t accept security questions to log into email. Like you log in correctly, they do the security questions, make you answer them correctly, then still don’t let you in unless you link a phone number, even if you never gave them one and never agreed to.




Check you IP on a blacklist checker. I was (am) on one for no apparent reason. They will do that, I was refused email accounts, refused access to wikipedia talk, and corporate emails keep trying to force me to hand over personal information. Tutamail may still give you an email, don’t bother with proton.
https://whatismyipaddress.com/blacklist-check
You don’t need to do anything just go to the site, if it’s the same one, and click check, and it goes through several dozens of these blacklisting sites.