> I am curious to know what is behind these big US companies being so anti privacy.
Google has an email service so that it can ingest all your communication and use it to better target ads. If Google didn't have access to the content of your emails, there wouldn't be much point to Gmail.
Microsoft mostly cares about enterprises, and enterprises generally don't want E2EE email; they have legal requirements to retain e-mail of employees, and have their own reasons to want to be able to access employee emails sometimes.
> Email can be secure, it’s just that the big US players can’t or won’t agree to proton like privacy.
Protonmail is not standards compilant. You can't login to your protonmail account from Thunderbird or k9 mail.
Yes, they have an IMAP bridge, but it's proprietary / requires a paid account.
Thus you're locked in to the official protonmail clients
> how can e-mail ever be a secure medium
Email can be secure, it’s just that the big US players can’t or won’t agree to proton like privacy.
I am curious to know what is behind these big US companies being so anti privacy.