I think a distinction must be made between a service that will protect your privacy historically and a service that will continuously protect your privacy. If

I think a distinction must be made between a service that will protect your privacy historically and a service that will continuously protect your privacy. If I sign up with protonmail today using a vpn like mullwad, since I'm probably not currently be targeted, I can reasonably be sure that it will be difficult to track things back to me. However, once I'm targeted and there's a warrant against me, any activity I have on such services is going to be logged going forward. So, using the service once to receive some data or do something anonymously is reasonably secure... This is very different from services like gmail which will have kept any logs in the past about me and that will always be able to track me without any further logging. It's imperfect but I think that given the current environment and the current laws, this might be the best we can have.