// email privacy

Source: Latest from Android Central

Proton Mail's ability to ingest Gmail accounts and send from Gmail addresses directly within its app removes a major friction point that has kept users trapped in Google's ecosystem—the fear of losing access to their Gmail identity. Email address portability has been a theoretical advantage of Gmail competitors for years, but Proton is the first to make switching genuinely frictionless, eliminating the need to maintain dual inboxes or retrain contacts. The move exposes how Gmail's dominance has relied less on superiority than on switching costs, and shows that privacy-first email providers are becoming viable replacements rather than niche alternatives.