They take governments at their word, and allow those governments to ban people from proton for bogus reasons with no pushback, no review or appeal. They can slander you behind your back, for Israel or whatever, you will get your account frozen, no way to contest it.

Fuck proton.

You're an incurious git that thinks you can pay for something contrary to what the market sells. I pay, therefore I believe the marketing material.

A centralized suit of tools sold by one capitalist-company does not make that company a comrade. They fight for their own capitalist-interests and the goal is a market-monopoly that enriches their owners. They are not open. They are not open to inter-network collaboration. They are capitalist and they hate user freedom.

From the drivel you've typed Google, Microsoft, et al will 'meet 95%' of your needs. "But I pay." "The marketing material says they're private." Are you a child?

Proton: you can have privacy only if you pay us and use our proprietary tools exclusively. Press X to doubt.

You can have privacy now, for free. You're too incurious to use those tools and liberate yourself though.

Try a thought experiment: Alice and Bob each have computers (super-computers in pocket-form); they also are subscribers that grant them access to the majority of the internet. They want to send each other 'e-mails'. The market says you can only do that if you pay a third-party (or if you 'consent' to electronic-surveillance from a third-party that provides e-mail functionality for 'free'). Are either option true? How could Alice, with her internet-connected super-computer, send Bob a message to Bob's internet-connected super-computer. Both computers are functional 24/7/365. Hm... Nope, can't be done. I need to pay Proton to use e-mail and for my pocket super-computer to have a calendar... oh look, the owner is filthy rich. Learning to use a computer is too hard. Let's make him richer. Computer users are a joke.