Safer than gmail … only reason gmail exists is for google to scan the contents and add it to the enormous data collection pile.
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SCORPION2000,
That is a very informative video.
Nevertheless, I would still use ProtonMail as opposed to Gmail.
In any event I treat an email like sending a postcard and I never send anything of great importance via email.
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You are the product. You get what you pay for. Etc etc.
Most email services that one would pay for are likely to respect privacy, limit external tracking (pixels, etc), and more.
Someone has to pay for free email services. Servers, operations, cooling, storage, network bandwidth, replication, electricity and such is not cheap.
E-mail services with a free tier offer that tier as an investment. It’s like a time-unlimited trial run for the paid service, which you’re more likely to purchase if you like using the free service. If you’re considering a provider that only offers paid tiers, you’re likely to be more hesitant to try it out. So with free services from companies that offer a paid service, you are not (necessarily) the product: you’re a prospective paying customer that they’re trying to win over.
But with free-only e-mail providers, you’re probably right. You’re certainly right in the case of GMail, Yahoo, etc.
Totally get what he’s saying but oh my, on so many levels I cannot take this dude seriously!
First, “ditch gmail, its evil…and I’m telling the world about it on my fully googled YouTube channel because you know, money!” 
And then he leads with 2 services, at least one of which (Startmail) is very questionable and both of which admittedly are not open source. He then knocks the open source Tutanota for UI and as expected, gives top position to Protonmail.
For transparency sake, of these, I do use Protonmail in a very limited capacity because I don’t think they’re as transparent as claimed. The mobile app is constantly throwing bug fits on top of that, but I rely on my own server with my own domains hosted by a trusted colleague.
But back to the video, I cannot support telling the world about what he calls “the moral compromise” of one google product via another morally compromised google product. 
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Nice!
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