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> Market forces, people should be pressured to use more secured services.

There is no such pressure in the market right now. Look at the email-provider market, where secure offering like Proton Mail are nowhere close to less secure ones like Gmail, Outlook/Live.com, etc. Why don't people just flock to Proton Mail?

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What makes Proton Mail more secure than Gmail et. al.?

Proton offers E2EE for mail, files, and calendar events. Gmail does not.

E2EE is a meme when you are using the provider's on-line auto-updating software to access the mail.

Are there any schemes that could allow e2ee seamlessly across email providers without compromise in privacy?

In theory, S/MIME and SMIMEA. In reality, normal users demand account data recovery in cases of lost encryption keys and passwords. So key escrow is required, which isn't E2EE. ProtonMail tells forgetful users to shove it, which limits its adoption; meanwhile ProtonMail also supports webmail (another feature requirement) which decrypts messages in the browser, weakening any E2EE claims.

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