Protonmail - they scan all unencrypted e-mails, they keep your private gpg keys...

ProtonVPN- Proton has received tons of money from EU - there is no free dinners...

Mullvad - is located in Sweden. Sweden has one of the worst privacy laws in the world. Police can hack lawfully devices...

Tutanota - they don't care about privacy.
Probably honeypot.

https://github.com/tutao/tutanota/issues/528

https://allinfosecnews.com/item/tutanota-is-a-honeypot-according-to-a-cbc-article-2023-11-11/ 

 What's the solution then? I sometimes pay hobos to carry encrypted letters in Aramaic in person but it's pretty limiting. 

 Don't pay for VPNs just use Tor instead.
If you need an email look for e-mail provider with POP3, imap access.
Start using GPG and keep your keys locally.
Try delta.chat

For IM try use xmpp (consider self hosting) or simplex.chat 

 Try to...