Mailbox does seem to have its own problem too

https://discuss.privacyguides.net/t/remove-mailbox-org/20232

It’s like a politician, “Look how bad the others are” and then not proposing anything better (because at this moment, there isn’t).

Not sure if making searches from a registered account is the way to go for people who “care about utmost privacy”

You probably want to use one of the ones that lets you search without registering.

https://www.privacyguides.org/en/search-engines/#recommended-providers

https://discuss.privacyguides.net/t/kagi-search-engine/14172/95

I can see you’ve spent a lot of time in any European country

There are no viable package solutions, that’s the thing. If you want to make sure your service supplier shares your values, there’s nothing but self-hosting left.

FUD is FUD