Proof of what?

engages in security theatre marketing to sell their service.

Proof of that.

This is self evident

It is not.

Every single email provider from Switzerland has to follow the law. Pretending their service has something over other services when they just follow the law is kind of ridiculous.

Good thing they don’t pretend anything like this and are very up front about following the law. In fact following the law is a large part of the marketing, which is just that Swiss law is less invasive than other countries, which it is.

If Proton just advertised we follow swiss law like every email provider in this country it would be accurate.

Which is exactly what they do. Where exactly is your problem again?

A great example of this is their recent credit card scandal where it was revealed that they they store meta data on transactions needlessly. They claim privacy, but yet they store your private information on their servers.

Of course they do? You’re literally paying them to? HELLO?

The truth is their service does not respect privacy in some regards.

See here’s your problem, you see the word “privacy” and attribute a bunch of promises to Proton that they haven’t made. They advertise a privacy friendly email service, and they do. You’ll get much more privacy using ProtonMail than something like Gmail or ICloud mail. You’re not going to achieve to 100% anonymity when using a protocol as old as email, on somebody else’s servers. That’s impossible and they never promised you that. You won’t find ANY email provider that will be as “Private” as you want them to be. You’re blaming Proton for not providing you with an imaginary product that doesn’t exist.

My issue is they pretend to be all about privacy, but then they store your personal information and it is YOUR fault.

It is your fault. Why is your ignorance anyone else’s fault? If you use Proton you will get far more privacy than using just about any other email hosting service, and on par with other privacy-centric email platforms. If digital privacy is this important to you, then devote SOME of your time to learning how to achieve what you want.

This is exactly what I’m talking about, you posting these vague aspersions with literally zero evidence backing it up. You’re literally the exact type of user I mentioned in my original comment. A non-technical end user pissed off because something you don’t understand doesn’t work in the way you imagined it in your head, because you don’t understand enough about email or privacy to form a cohesive opinion on the matter.

Like have it your way, just keep using Gmail and let them scan every line of every email in your inbox and feed it all to Gemini. Or switch to other of Proton’s peers and experience the same benefits and the same limitations you do with ProtonMail while deluding yourself into thinking you’re better off. But this rampant spreading of misinformation has got to stop eventually.