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> The performance hit is minimal.

I'll bite once again - from personal experience, I knew Gmail is slower than ProtonMail, but I tested it anyway. I loaded both Gmail and ProtonMail, using the browser's profiler. Gmail spent 6x the time ProtonMail did in the garbage collector, and 2x the time ProtonMail spent in the JIT compiler.

DRM is a contributor to that.

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6x is minimal for me considering how complex Gmail is. It's not that slow. I can use it quickly and get up running and it's okay for anyone unless you're a person who is not patient for few seconds.

You always have the option for loading "Basic HTML" and you can get Protonmail or Toyota like experience there ;)

I don't know what's your agenda really is. Attacking DRMs are bad.

You have issues like spammers abusing Gmail interface to send emails using Google IPs and there DRM rocks.

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