Wow, I had multiple names pop up in my mind yet with most of the names, I found a recent controversy which weirded me out.

There are two things: Tech companies which actually do have a good moral compass & Tech companies which are perceived/advertised as such.

As much as I'd like to think that I cannot be persuaded by adverts, I think that with the recent case of proton, it does shatter a bit to what I had thought was a tech company with a good moral compass.

It almost seems that every single one of the company that I trusted with is going through some deep disturbance within the force.

For what its worth, I have huge respect for Lavabit, also I have lots of respects to small VPS providers who are keeping it an affordable price. You might not know their names as some are even 1 man shops but TNAhosting and xhosts.uk seem extremely fine companies to me.

My interpretation: You need structural alignment with what you and what the company wants because incentives are much harder to overcome even if one has good moral compass and vice versa as well as a company with bad moral compass but one where your incentives are perfectly aligned can be good. Companies might start with good intentions but it is really really hard to preserve that as you grow and involve more people and bureaucracy and as those people come with their own incentives which might or might not align with the incentives of the company or that of the consumer.