Depends on who you are and your set up. I use a lot of Proton products because the bang for the buck is excellent and they have a really good track record of privacy oriented practices since I joined in 2016 or so. I also have backstops everywhere – synced local backups of passwords, calendars, drive, and mail, my own domains for emails, payment through a privacy.com card, and so on. Bazzell’s book Extreme Privacy does an excellent job in setting this sort of transferable system up. If Proton does enshittify, which I’d be really surprised if they do because its their single major selling point and comparative advantage, then I can still jump ship to keepass, Tuta, local storage or a NAS, and a different VPN service.

But until then, their products are quite good and I like having a single company I can recommend to non-tech folks like my wife and parents that offers everything they’re used to but with much more privacy than Google.

I can’t solve the ethical bit, but I am working on a project that can solve the first two – I.e., using large language models through API key access in a secure and private way. It’s challenging, but we’ve made some really good progress using a number of layered approaches. I plan on posting the project here once we get a better confirmation and testing on the privacy and security aspects.