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That's because they are encrypted. There's a bridge
That makes them totally unreasonable and pushed for vendor lockin and proprietary applications you can't run anywhere.
This is hilarious, people here get all pissed about google and microsoft when it comes to email and then pick an alternative that is less open in all possible ways.
Just use a domain then and switch whenever you feel like.
ProtonMail's encryption system isn't particularly useful
I've always considered it for my data not to be read by the company and it's employees but you bring up an interesting point.