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keep in mind nothing is immune to enshittification. assume that everything you do online, even with proton or other "privacy first" companies, exists online. forever. and even if a company stays true to their "privacy first" policy, inevitably, they'll be breached, and it'll all be out in the world anyway
Proton, at least, is now bound by law to act in the best interest of its customers, due to being a Swiss non-profit.
All the metadata perhaps (still very valuable), but client-side, zero-access encryption means it's encrypted before it hits the servers. So while a data leak might, for example, show who, when, and how much you're emailing, it wouldn't show the content of the email as gmail would.
Moving in the direction of better and voting with your dollars is an important step away from already enshittified structures, which I'd argue, are inherent to certain models and not others. EG: a self hosted, open source software developed by a non-profit could sell and incorporate and enshittify, but the possibility of forking is an effective disincentive that could easily eat projected gains.