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I’m in the US and I don’t even want a US email provider for the surveillance concerns alone.
Protonmail, servers in Switzerland. Encrypted so that even proton doesn't have the key. The only downer is if you forget your login info and need to do a full account reset you also lose your encryption key as a new one is generated and old emails are unretrievable.
Good in case of attempted account take over
Only downside is their CEO supports Trump, and tweeted his support for Trump from Proton’s official company Twitter account. When this whole thing happened, Proton never took those tweets down. Don’t know if they’re still up or not but I don’t care.
The point is, use Proton if and only if you’re okay with knowing that the company’s official stance is in support of fascism.
Alternatively, I’d recommend Mailbox.org or Tuta.
This is the Internet's common wisdom at the moment but it's a bit reductive. Here's a decent write up about it:
https://medium.com/@ovenplayer/does-proton-really-support-trump-a-deeper-analysis-and-surprising-findings-aed4fee4305e