Re: No privacy at any price
"For example, its hard to argue that Gmail is one of the better email server implementations, but I can not get a private account"
You can get a private account by going to a provider who specialises in running paid-for mail services as their business and it will cost you a lot less than $1,000,000 pa. Don't forget, with Google you're the product and it you're the product it's hard to argue that it's even a good implementation let alone one of the better.