Google has gone to great lengths to make its ecosystem of products as sticky as possible, and for the most part it has worked, with Gmail among the most widely used email services on Earth.įrom a consumer perspective, Gmail offers great utility, including an email categorization system that automatically groups inbound emails by type under separate tabs, helping users find specific kinds of emails (e.g., “social” or “promotions”). Indeed, while Proton often positions itself as the antithesis of Google, from a privacy perspective at least, the company has revealed a busy roadmap for the coming months that will usher in a swathe of new features that are just a little reminiscent of Gmail. Proton, the Swiss company behind a suite of privacy-focused products including email, has teased a fairly substantial upgrade for its flagship Proton Mail and calendar services.Īlthough Proton has expanded into cloud storage and VPNs through the years, encrypted email remains Proton’s bread and butter - and that is arguably the most interesting facet of its latest reveal.

Proton email trace