I don't understand how Proton want fight for online freedom and have a such strong dependency to Google Play Services.
I am now running an AOSP rom without Play Services that is aiming to be more secure and better for privacy (it is DivestOS).
But I can't have email notifications because ProtonMail is only using Google Play Services with no fallback to local push. Even a regular (configurable) gathering of new emails every hours would work for me. I don't need it to be real time, as if I wait for an email, I just check myself!

I can tell you with total certainty that if Proton did not offer to import all my items from Google, there is a 0% chance I would have switched to Proton. It is just too much work to manually copy literally decades of data. The import capability is there for people who need or want it; if you don't, then ignore it.

Proton definitely should work to De-Google all of their services

I don't understand why people keep calling google an evil corporation. Just 10 years ago when google was a startup. everyone loved google. I think importing from google is convenient because you don't have to manage to mail service when the emails from one mail service is goes to your main one.

Absolute most important google service for proton to distance themselves from is GMS.
the options to import mail and contacts, fine it's a one time dump. if anything it sends a message to google that you've had enough of them and hopefuly they loose visibility of futre data from those services. But GMS, that is a constant feed of data that can be tracked back to our device IDs.
GMS must go! Putting all three posible votes I can into this one!

Now ProtonPass is embedding Youtube videos directly in its onboarding process 🤦

They should have moderators on these threads. The number of bots here is mind blowing. So annoying that I wouldn't mind doing it for free myself.

Reported, this is a spam.

For me this is a dealbreaker. As long as I cant recieve Push notifications on my GrapheneOS without GMS, i will not switch to Proton as my main Mail and i will stay at the free tier.

I upvoted more for the disentanglement fro Google Play t Services than the import button. But overall, yeah, don't rely on Google.

Yeah, it's a priority for privacy! Still pending since 2017!!

Add your app on F-Droid, stop to connect with facebook and google on this website.

Add Mastodon and Jabber for social network.

It's critical

Please implement push notifications without relying on Google Play Services for those of us using de-Googled Android. For now I'm going without notifications...

Dependence on google makes the mobile app unusable.

I can't recommend Proton to anyone who (a) cares about privacy/security and (b) needs email notifications.

Can we at least get an explanation as to whether this will be a future feature, or whether, for some reason, Proton will never create a standalone apk?

Even if you don't usa Google, you will be traced by other search engines.

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I'm forced to use google because of some of the integration features. These include but are not limited to: calendly, zoom, desktop file sync, online document editor (doesn't have to be robust, just basic), WearOS app integration or IMAP capability or an android version of the bridge. When proton decides to implement these basic features then we can ditch google. Also, a photo storage backup for your mobile phone by "date taken" would be nice. I hate backing up my photos to google and amazon

Dude its just import function not a integration of servers that can h@ack your data. Your data is private as Crypto node or block chain technology help it. So it impossible to crack it. I use Ethereum Node of compromise my data through https://cryptonodes.io/ and you should use that too.

For android i use GrapheneOS and i do not have google pay services installed thus emails do not come though via push, but i also have the calendar app and i get those notifications without issue.

please fix the mail app to not require google play services anymore

I appreciate that I could easily transition away from Gmail with this import feature. There is no reason to get rid of these integrations.