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The lesson here is despite what a service says, don't trust it and take the appropriate measures to cover your tracks.
You can create an access the inbox through Tor at
protonmailrmez3lotccipshtkleegetolb73fuirgj7r4o4vfu7ozyd.onionThe important thing is to always access it through Tor.
Also pay attention to what the service says and what it doesn’t. We get into this spot regularly because of things people assumed about Protonmail without being told.
That's just such an easy link to memorise, isn't it? Just like the New Emergency Number
Onion TLDs are inherently not human readable for many well documented reasons of varying levels of legitimacy.
The idea is that you write it down ahead of time (bookmarks and password managers are a thing) and paste it into your TOR browser or bake it into your privacy oriented live USB.