I'm convinced my old company was complicit in this to some degree. It was a start up with absolutely silly funding for a bunch of products (b2c and b2b) that were aimed to hoover up personal information under the guise of gaming.

For some reason we were told to start an office in Tel Aviv and to specifically hire devs from unit 8200.

As if Google isn't already crammed with Israeli spies. In fact, that's probably why an Israeli company just got a sweetheart buy out from Google! This is just a continuation of a pre-existing issue Google already had.

Terminal birth rates across the world are the real gift that keeps giving

I did not know they had a new slogan

Proton makes it easy to switch by setting up email forwarding from your Gmail to protonmail

When you do eventually switch, I'd recommend getting your own domain and using an email address at that domain, so that your email address becomes independent of your email provider. It will make it easier to switch again in future should you need to, because you can keep the same email address and use it with a new provider.