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Proton free email comes with storage of 1GB. I wonder why aren’t they beating Gmail (15 GB)? If they make 20 or 25GB wouldn’t they get more customers?

Updated: For folks downvoting my comment - they are spending money for branding & selling better. Hence I asked this question.

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I believe their business model is different. Since Proton doesn't mine data, extra space is just cost to them. But for Google basically all data is useful in some way so they maybe even profiting from free accounts. This is not the case for Proton probably.

They don't use your data in email. It's also a loss for Google - just one that's easier to afford.

How do we know? Especially for trainning LLMs it's a goldmine now.

How do you know that the NSA isn't actually using a zero day to mind control the world by hacking into their computers and subtly manipulating them? Email as training data (though it is probably worthless) is hardly worth sacrificing the company's entire reputation for.

That would attract people who want to use a lot of storage without spending any money, i.e. the opposite of what they want.

True, but it will pull more customers from GMail. End of the day we are valuable as a company when we have more active users. But the earlier comment about privacy & less data makes sense. In a nutshell, we are giving away more data to Google instead of fees. data = money. Makes sense.

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