Or get a custom domain to use with gmail, best of both worlds!
There is clearly some merit to Proton Mail's privacy claims. Even Google goes out of their way to try to scrape data from ProtonMail: https://old.reddit.com/r/ProtonMail/comments/9yl94k/never_co...
Until some time ago there used to be a prompt indicating that the page was translated. But haven't used chrome in a long time.
I have my own domains, POP mailboxes hosted by my domain providers which also provide SMTP servers (I don't feel like self hosting) but I know Google know most of what I write.