I reckon that the Venn diagram of Facebook users and people interested in privacy would consist of two separate circles...

Obviously this is just another fake holiday invented as a marketing scheme. If you really want to help small businesses, then don't pay with an American Express card which charges them much higher interchange fees than other credit cards, and especially high compared to using a debit card.

At first I thought it was weird that Mozilla were testing cars, but then I realized they're experts both in privacy and, err... crashing

Why not just use iCloud for Windows, which synchronizes everything with no hassles?

And what could possibly go wrong with that plan?!

Someone somewhere has got to pay the bills, and the current state of "free" email providers isn't good. Good email is worth paying a small sum for. So the best solution is to register a domain name so you're never tied to one provider (say $15 to $20 per year), and then sign up for a reasonably-priced commercial email service. Fastmail are good, as are Proton Mail. I'm an Apple device user, so I use my domain with iCloud+ which only costs a dollar a month.