As a project that advocates Privacy and Security, and was an immediate response to the Snowden Leaks, I find this kinda ironic that they now set the Google PREFs cookie for all of their users - while they still maintain the same marketing on their website.
And well, I am looking for new options now, I guess.
Protonmail might have issues, but the threat of some leaked information through javascript and/or cookies (hello google fonts!) can be attributed to literally every site that uses recaptcha whereas the article is talking about a much, much worse practice of tracking physical location constantly and making it difficult or impossible to use your phone without giving that information to Google.
I hope protonmail finds a better way, and agree that it's not in keeping with their stance on privacy, but it is distracting from what Google is actually doing with phones by talking about an entirely unrelated issue.
No offense intended to the parent, the comment is interesting, it's just not about the article at all and yet is the top comment at the time I write this.
Don't let the perfect be the enemy of the good.
I hope you don’t assume the worst without investigating further.
But I agree with you, I think I should give them a chance to respond to this. Personally, I think this is a serious issue.
I opened up a GitHub issue for their frontend (as they do not have any security disclosure contact possibility as it seems): https://github.com/ProtonMail/WebClient/issues/242
Google made it nearly impossible for users to keep their location private - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27324755
Since it's more on-topic here, I've moved it hither.