Kagi could be a good alternative to Google Translate: https://translate.kagi.com/translate/https://www.xataka.com/servicios/foros-internet-estan-desapareciendo-porque-ahora-todo-reddit-discord-eso-preocupante

Any data related to your person. (name, contacts, date of birth, etc.) Search "PII" or "personally identifiable information" if you want to read more about that.

Drive - Selfhosted Nextcloud

Email - Posteo/Tuta

VPN - Cryptostorm (IVPN/Mullvad are more user friendly)

Passwords - Keepass (Sync over my Nextcloud.)

Well, I'd say Proton is still better than most other options (open-source software, no ad trackers on the website and in apps). However, specifically for VPNs, I would recommend Mullvad or IVPN. If you are a bit more tech-savvy, you may also take a look at Cryptostorm. Of all three, only Mullvad is police-raid-proven to not store logs or other PII. The most important thing for me personally would be that the VPN company is not owned by a larger parent company, which in turn owns multiple different VPN providers. This alone excludes a lot of the heavily advertised providers (Private Internet Access, NordVPN, Surfshark, ExpressVPN, CyberGhost, OVPN, and probably a few more).

Mostly true, that's why I opened with "I wouldn’t call it writing on the wall." But for me, it shows that they are not as privacy- and consumer-focused as they like to present themselves. Supporting Trump is just five steps further in this direction. (That's just how I feel about it.)

I wouldn't call it "writing on the wall," but they have done some not-so-good things over the last few years:

1. Handing over data for their email services (which was legally required) (ref).
2. Releasing a Bitcoin wallet. The problem for me is that Bitcoin is inherently not private.
3. Lying in marketing. Proton claims "no data or speed limits" for their free VPN (ref), which is just plain wrong. If you download a few gigs, it will slow you down to a few Mbit (if I remember correctly). I even contacted their support about this, and they just said, "They are balancing the servers for the free VPN." But then why was it fast in the beginning, and if I reconnected to the same server, would it be fast again. Just to be clear: I have no problem with the speed limit/balancing itself, just that they are lying about it.
4. Proton incentivizing free email accounts to connect to a Gmail account to get 500 MB more storage. (You need to go through the "tutorial" steps to get the 500 MB extra, and one of them is to have a Google Mail account send all their emails to your new Proton inbox.)

This is why I personally decided against Proton.

Maybe take a look at selfhost.de. The Website is completely in German but they have a free tier and their privacy policy also looks good. I used the paid version for 10+ years and never had any problems.

https://lemm.ee/instances ../instances also works for any other instance you might want to check out.

For context: They edited their anwser and said the old one was bad. https://kagifeedback.org/d/2808-reconsider-your-partnership-with-brave

For context: They edited their anwser and said the old one was bad. https://kagifeedback.org/d/2808-reconsider-your-partnership-with-brave

Consent-O-Matic https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/consent-o-matic/