I did not know about the cooperation with authorities, not that it surprises me. The email recommendations are good and should be easy enough to swap to with my cusrom domain already, but what about VPN providers? Are there any you would recommend that support port forwarding, aren’t AI slop coded, actually privacy focused and not ran by complete bastard tech bros?

Genuine question; what is it about them that appeals to you? I used them for a while as a few things on kubuntu defaulted to snap but after a while I kept running into different issues that don’t occur on the flathub/deb counterparts so I’ve cut them out for the most part.