I recently switched to Proton, mostly to get out of Gmail and Hotmail.

I did this firstly to get out of the yankee services, not because I trust Proton: their claims of private mail are mostly bullshit, and they do clearly behave like a CIA honeypot, so I don’t trust them (as I didn’t trust the other two), so I use the free account (also there are increasingly fewer and fewer free options nowadays) just to get emails that I’m more than okay being known, or where my domain emails don’t work.

Everything else goes to an assortment of addresses on my webstorage with my domain, running on a national server outside of all the cursed 9/14/etc eyes. Even still I expect them to be fully visible under a court order. But I get no one actively profiting off their info, and get no spam there. So I’m very happy with the change.

Use replay gain (track based), it helps a lot, you just need an audio player that supports it. Foobar2000 does, and also allows you to apply replay gain to any download music you have.