The end-to-end encryption is only between protonmail addresses, in practice when you email people with gmail/hotmail/yahoo etc. it doesn't matter if protonmail

The end-to-end encryption is only between protonmail addresses, in practice when you email people with gmail/hotmail/yahoo etc. it doesn't matter if protonmail can't read the e-mail, the other party can. (Their solution for that is to send an e-mail that contains a password-protected link with the actual message [0], I find this procedure inconvenient.) Gmail could be as secure as Protonmail by using PGP yourself [1]. And then you can keep your desktop mail client. Also Google won't need to pay criminals if they're DDOS attacked like Protonmail in the past: https://www.forbes.com/sites/thomasbrewster/2015/11/05/protonmail-pays-to-stop-ddos/ https://www.forbes.com/sites/thomasbrewster/2015/11/05/proto... (this is when I gave up on Protonmail) [0]: https://protonmail.com/support/knowledge-base/encrypt-for-outside-users/ https://protonmail.com/support/knowledge-base/encrypt-for-ou... [1]: https://emailselfdefense.fsf.org/en/ https://emailselfdefense.fsf.org/en/