Your most private conversations. Gmail reads them for AI training. Outlook sends your passwords to Microsoft. The alternatives aren't perfect either.
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What we found
Gmail: FGoogle said they stopped reading your email in 2017.
Gmail still scans every email for Smart Reply, Smart Compose, nudges, travel cards, package tracking, event extraction, and payment detection. In late 2025, Google enabled Gemini AI to read emails by default — requiring opt-out across two separate settings pages. Google stopped scanning for ads but never stopped scanning. The machine reading your email just got smarter.
Microsoft Outlook: FWhen you add your Gmail or Yahoo account to the new Outlook, Microsoft sends your email password to their servers.
The new Outlook sends your IMAP and SMTP credentials — including passwords — for third-party email accounts (Gmail, Yahoo, iCloud) to Microsoft's Azure servers. Verified by c't/heise via traffic analysis in November 2023. When you add your Gmail account to Outlook, Microsoft gets your Gmail password. This is not a bug — it's the architecture.
Proton Mail: DProton says they can't read your email.
Incoming email from non-Proton senders arrives in plaintext. Proton processes this plaintext email for spam scanning BEFORE encrypting it at rest. During this processing window, Proton can and does read email content. 'Zero-access encryption' only applies after processing is complete — not during the spam scan that happens to every external email you receive.