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Proton Mail keeps helpful features you lose when disabling AI elsewhere
It’s all over YouTube, TikTok, and other social media services—everyone wants to know how to turn off AI features in Google’s Gmail service. People are simply uncomfortable with the idea that an AI model is reading through their mail, training itself on their personal data.
The problem is that many genuinely useful features in Gmail are now tied to this AI feature set. So by disabling AI, you’re losing handy functions like autocorrect and automatically sorted categories for your incoming mail.
With Proton Mail, you don’t have to choose between privacy and utility, and this Black Friday, Proton is offering the biggest discount on this service ever: 60% off a Proton Mail premium plan.
But an (admittedly) amazing deal isn’t enough of a reason to switch mail providers, so why should you consider Proton Mail?
When you disable AI in Gmail, you lose more than you expect
- Categories
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Email app
- Subscription cost
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$4.99/month
Proton Mail offers an encrypted and secure way to keep track of your life and emails—and you can try it for less.
The fact that disabling AI in Gmail breaks so many useful features has exposed how tightly integrated its data-driven features are with your inbox experience. All the small features that make Gmail a good experience are tied into its data pipelines.
Those viral AI-disabling posts show that if you don’t want the contents of your inbox used to train an AI model, you just have to be content with a less intelligent mail service. Or does it?
The thing is, this isn’t a limitation universal to all mail services. It’s just a reflection of one popular mail service that’s been built around extracting data from users. It doesn’t have to be that way.
Proton Mail offers productivity without surveillance
No AI training. No ads. No hidden data collection.
Proton takes the opposite approach. With this service, you are not the product—you’re the customer, and Proton Mail is meant to serve your best interests. It doesn’t need to make you opt in to AI model training for great productivity features:
Advanced spam and phishing protection
Email is still the most popular way to scam you or spread malware around the world, and Proton Mail detects and filters these threats before they ever reach you, without the need for surveillance.
Newsletter view and one-click unsubscribe
Instead of the AI-powered categorization you might be used to, Proton Mail offers a powerful set of structured tools to tame your inbox.
Using the amazing Newsletter View feature, you can quickly organize and unsubscribe from emails that you didn’t sign up for or no longer want.
Folders, labels, and filters
You can organize mail exactly how you like without needing an AI assistant watching you work and learning everything it can about you and how you manage your mail.
Multiple email addresses for one account
There’s no need to open multiple email accounts to have different emails for different purposes. You can separate personal, financial, and work communication with dedicated addresses that all deliver mail to the same central inbox.
Best of all, you can use a dedicated email address for your logins, which means you never have to expose your username online.
Hide-My-Alias
Privacy is a top priority for Proton Mail, which is why it has a built-in feature to create disposable email addresses when signing up for services where you don’t want to be a lifelong target of spam.
The privacy difference: Proton doesn’t need to see your email to help you
Proton’s privacy model is fundamentally different from the “free” mail services out there. As a premium mail service, it does not need to scan your email content to deliver its features, and it doesn’t need to profile you for advertising.
Here’s how Proton Mail keeps your data private:
- End-to-end encryption means Proton can’t read your emails.
- Zero-access encryption means it can’t decrypt them even if it wanted to.
- No trackers, no ads, and no profiling means your email habits never become behavioral data.
Why now is the right time to switch
Email isn’t going anywhere. It’s more essential than ever as the anchor for your digital life. However, with the advent of AI-driven features, do you really want an email service digging through your medical records, financial data, and private correspondence with friends and family?
Proton Mail was designed for users who want both: a streamlined inbox and control over their data. And during Black Friday, Proton’s 60% discount is the best opportunity of the year to make the jump.
