Oh, wow. This makes me want to switch our work email away from Protonmail... * If you are not comfortable giving Google unlimited access to all of your intimat

Oh, wow. This makes me want to switch our work email away from Protonmail... * If you are not comfortable giving Google unlimited access to all of your intimate communications* Who would? But this is a sleight-of-hand where we somehow got from "google targets advertisement based on email content" all the way to "everyone working at google reads your email, and they all make fun of what you did last night". By those standards, Google also reads everything on protonmail. At least if you use Chrome. Besides, there are other factors than just encryption standards that impact security. The largest of all is the organisation you're trusting. Google is obviously far ahead in terms of expertise and resources. They also have far more to lose, are probably better set up to protect against rogue insiders, and are impossible to compromise with money. OTOH, they're subject to FISA courts and whatnot.