[paride5745]

I already started to move most of my communications to ProtonMail. Looks like Google wants to force people to use the WebUI instead of email clients (no google ads on IMAP/POP).

What's annoying is that they are impacting paying customers as well, which is quite bad.

[newscracker]

Last I checked, Proton Mail does not support standard email client protocols. So you’re stuck with its apps and a browser interface or with buying a paid subscription and using a bridge software on desktop to use a client like Thunderbird. Getting mails out of Proton Mail is also not as easy as setting up a client with IMAP or using other tools like imapsync.

[paride5745]

The point is that Google is harming paying customers, and as a paying customer Proton respects me more and it is based in Europe, which is a big plus for me.

[kelvinjps10]

But Proton doesn't offer good third-party access either; actually, Gmail is better

[mempko]

Yes it does, they have an official software called the bridge which allows you to connect a 3rd party email client.

[matheusmoreira]

I'm having a really good experience with Proton. I even interacted with them here on HN once, they cleared up some uncertainties by posting technical OpenPGP information that wasn't covered in their documentation.

[ianhawes]

I suspect this has much more to do with bad actors using automated means to access Gmail and send spam.

[NetMageSCW]

How does gmail using POP to retrieve messages to your account from your account with another service facilitate spam and how can the bad actor take advantage of that?

[sumanep]

That does not make sense

[deadbabe]

Why not just use Gmail api?