[blablabla123]

To be fair Protonmail has much more to offer than "just" privacy friendly legislation. The free web mail client is full-featured, time tested and has no ads. That in my opinion already puts it ahead among the main mail providers. Also it has the Proton bridge, VPN etc. etc. I'd say it really depends on the personal threat model and willingness to DIY. My main complaint with it is bad interoperability with gpg though. (I'm not sure how anything less is supposed to help with end-to-end privacy...)

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> The free web mail client is full-featured, time tested and has no ads.

I'm currently paying for proton mail, but I'll be migrating away for it once my current period expires, exactly because it's not full-featured.

It has the worst search I have ever seen in a mail client. Even after enabling content search it's as good as utterly useless.

[blablabla123]

Well yeah, I mean it has browser-based e2e encryption which is why search only applies to subjects/addresses. For more Proton bridge is needed. IIRC it's possible to also search the message bodies directly but it's quite slow.