Choosing for me how to sort my email and causing me to miss emails with its promos/updates/social inbox was one of my longstanding gripes with Gmail, like a solid decade before I became even a little privacy conscious. I absolutely do not want this "feature." I am very good at maintaining separation between who gets my primary email address and who gets the marketing one, along with monitoring that email and unsubscribing from things I don't want. Which means that the marketing emails aka "newsletters" that come through are actually ones I want and I want to see them in the folder I directed them to.

Edit to add: Because Proton does not, cannot, and should not read the content of our emails it is terrible at this. It seems to catch any email with the words hello, offer, newsletter (rarely used but okay fine), update, and welcome in either the sender name or subject line. It's catching every single email from my doctors, my job, my health insurance, concert ticket *purchases* from a smaller ticketing website and order confirmations from certain stores.This was a problem with Gmail's categories as well, in particular I routinely missed vital emails that were mischaracterized into "promotions" something I assumed I could skip. I also missed a critical email from Facebook when my account was compromised because it filtered into the "social" tab.

I want, no I NEED, the ability to turn this feature off. To top it all off, it doesn't even respect the user's categorization. I unselected a "your prescription is ready" email from my pharmacy and this message was in the pop-up: This will remove the newsletter entry from this list. It will not unsubscribe you from the newsletter. It will reappear if you receive new messages.

It is unacceptable to not respect the user's designation of "no this is not a newsletter."

And quite frankly, because I use aliases for everything I will not use a built in unsubscribe feature. If it's something I didn't sign up for the sender will get marked as spam. If it's a company I do want emails from but I want fewer/no marketing emails I will go into the "management my email preferences" options and adjust internally.

Please allow us to disable this view and all future views. Disabling should also disable whatever metadata tracking proton is doing as noted below I am also seeing long ago deleted emails in the newsletter view.

Why the heck did they implement this view? That is just a waste of development time which could have been spent on something useful instead.

Such a poor implementation of a "feature". Forcing paid Proton customers to use it whether they want to or not.

Items end up in this list that definitely are not newsletters.

Also, even if I unsubscribe to a newsletter in the normal way, delete the newsletter email, then empty the trash, the newsletter is still listed in the Views > Newsletters list. That's a privacy vulnerability.

Also, items can be removed from the Views > Newsletters list only via a tedious one-at-a-time process requiring multiple clicks. I don't want items in that list, so I get angry at Proton every day when I have to go through this tedious process.

There should be a way to entirely disable this feature. If you're not willing to do that, you should at least make it possible to select all items in the list and remove them with a single process. If you're not willing to do even that, you should at the very least enable a way to select multiple items at a time for removal.

I can't believe Proton Mail's product designers came up with such a **** poor design, one that completely ignores the preferences of your paid customers.

Come on, you can do better than this. But maybe you don't care.

I REALLY don't like the newsletters feature, and here's why. I was shocked to find that even though I had unsubscribed from some mailing lists and deleted emails that were NOT mailing lists, the newsletters feature had recorded that message. I had to go and manually make three clicks to delete every single "newsletter" record of every email it had retained the metadata for, over 100 messages and 300 clicks. And now I have to maintain the cleanliness and privacy of my mailbox by logging into the Protonmail website frequently and clearing out the newsletters section even though I have already deleted the email. This is super freaking annoying.

For me, it seems that Proton Mail treats far too many incoming emails as newsletters. Coupled with the fact that this assignment often (always?) means that they do not show up in InBox, bot only in All Mail, this actually makes things more difficult.
Please allow the Newsletter View to be turned off by the hapless user.

Please give us an option to disable this irritating clutter.

This is just feature creep and more clutter. It really should be optional.

This is super ridiculous. The persistent adding of "valuable" features without consent is what drove me to Proton. Don't fall into the well worn developers pattern of ens#%tification. Seriously!

I agree.
When this appeared I though NP, I have to assign emails to it.
BUT NO! PM autodecided for me.

A simple ON/off option, we can "set auto move to folder" on incoming emails, which I did setuo.
BUT newsletters is overriding this grrrr

I totally agree. This isn't for everyone, in fact it's not even for most people. The stunning thing is that this feature can be recreated easily with folders and filters if one wants such a thing. Putting it in the navigation pane, pushing actual useful content out of my view is counter-productive for me. I get no newsletters and I don't want any. This is just a sore thumb sticking up in my way. I hate the interface being cluttered up with things I won't use. This has got to be the idea of someone in marketing - ie someone who hasn't thought about users or cares about those who dislike it. A simple toggle for this obnoxious monstrosity sucking up valuable screen space would be very much appreciated for those who won't use it. Please address this very soon!

I'm not a newsletter person. If I get one, chances are I'm going to unsubscribe or mark it as spam. There will never be enough newsletters in my inbox for this "view" to be useful.

More generally, I don't get that much mail (by design) and don't let it pile up, so I'll never have enough messages of any kind for any automatic categorization of the inbox to be useful.

The whole "views" section is just clutter for me, and there should definitely be an option to turn it off.