I agree that they are a great email provider, the lesser evil, and I myself use a paid plan. But I believe that, as a society, we are rolling down a slippery sl

I agree that they are a great email provider, the lesser evil, and I myself use a paid plan. But I believe that, as a society, we are rolling down a slippery slope where digital privacy becomes more difficult everyday. A couple of weeks ago, it was Apple announcing that they will spy by default in all of their customers via the iPhones because of child pornography. Apple has spent galleons of gold marketing itself as a privacy-first company and they are not a pushover; for them to do that, whatever is going on behind the curtains must be grim. I thought it would be a few years before somebody wanted to use something like that technology for something less serious. Then yesterday the news broke that courts had forced ProtonMail to break their business just so the French police could find a climate activist. In my view, we are heading to a world where our electronic devices and services will be used to prosecute petty crimes, like drinking alcohol in Arab countries or even parking over the line anywhere else.