An author is writing to an audience, and surely you can't be surprised that there are larger-than-desired groups of people who actually do think corporations can act morally?
I know, I was on a big anti-google crusade and Proton seemed like an easy plug-n-play for a lot of the same services. That's OK, I'm not really an "all your eggs in one basket" kind of person anyway.
USA still uses fax...