proton alternatives, a quick list

So if you missed it, Proton was in the news recently because of their CEO (and CTO, for what it's worth) both seemingly in the throes of advanced AI psychosis (on top of just, you know, standard employee abuse). While Proton-the-product seems currently stable, I don't have confidence it will remain so. This is a bummer! I (mostly) liked Proton, and it has proven its historical strength as a privacy-focused online suite. I knew things were going bad when they introduced an AI Assistant (oof) but I didn't expect it was that bad. This sort of thing keeps happening and I don't necessarily think it's going to get better in the broader tech space. Mullvad, recently, also ran into some criticism due to one of its CEOs being a sponsor of European fascism. I do not necessarily think that pure abstinence on ideological grounds is particularly practical at this time. The nature of these large-scale privacy-focused products are such that they cannot be meaningfully replicated through…