Google’s entire brand was built on amazing search

And how was that search funded? Google took in large amounts of money from venture capitalists in the 90s and transitioned to an advertising-based model as early as 2000. You're incredibly naive if Google's "descent into shittiness" came as a surprise; it was always going to happen as the company looked for ways to generate a return for investors on its free product.

Meanwhile, Proton is a company that generates almost all of its revenues from selling its services to consumers for a fee and has no venture capitalist investors. As consumers are its primary source of revenue, any attempt to undermine the reason those consumers pay for its services (privacy) is going to have a significant and negative impact on the financial viability of the business.

Please think before you rage post. Your attempts to compare these two companies are hysterical and inane.