I suggest getting RSS feeds from your subscriptions from Invidious. This way you won't directly connect to Google's servers.

This.

I never said anything about E2EE. Please re-read what I wrote carefully.

No support for Monero despite it being requested on uservoice 6 years ago. A Bitcoin wallet (seriously?) which is easily traceable. Important email metadata is also not zero access encrypted (i.e., subject headers, from/to headers) which leaks a substantial amount of information even if the body is encrypted. Not to mention they had clearnet redirects from their onion service a while back, something a lot of honeypots usually do.

Even if it's not a honeypot, you're sure as hell not getting any privacy with Proton. That's for sure.

Also do give citations for your bombastic claim that most people don’t want anonymity.

This is entirely dependent on the situation. Privacy is not a black or white thing where you're completely private or not private at all. Everyone lives some part of their life publicly. I don't have data on this unfortunately, but typically where I live, people share phone numbers to people they personally know.

The graph of who communicates with whom is precisely the problem. The government can easily correlate that data with all the other data they have on people, and then if somebody is identified as a person of interest it becomes easy to find other people who associate with them. So, here you just proved my point by showing that you yourself don’t understand the implications of metadata harvesting.

This is not within the vast majority of most peoples threat model.

It's Proton. What do you expect?

Speaking of which, Debian users, how safe are distribution upgrades?

I know. And that's reasonable of course. I'm sure most of us would agree that proprietary blobs are bad. I'm optimistic that firmware will become more open in the future though.

In contrast to my experience, all the other search engines stink. Google is the only good one. But I suggest using a frontend like Araa if you want privacy.

I'm not sure if this is a good idea. Would people seriously pay just to access some subreddit? Why wouldn't they go on another forum?

Not true. There are providers that aren't KYC and allow you to pay in crypto.

What do you mean by "without proprietary bs"?