> Even Proton Mail ended up ratting to the French,

Answering to court orders isn't "ratting". You either answer court orders or go to prison.

Or they architect their system better so that they never collect the IP addresses to begin with. I think Privacy Pass and other things Mullvad is doing help in this area, but I am not aware of Proton working with them to implement anything like this. But Proton should do this, because it’s relevant to customers of Proton.

https://discuss.privacyguides.net/t/privacy-pass-the-new-pro...

Apparently not Privacy Pass related, will keep looking as I seem to remember that Mullvad was doing that implementation, but I may remember incorrectly.

https://discuss.privacyguides.net/t/mullvad-has-partnered-wi...

I don't think it is common to refer to server logs as "telemetry".

Logs aren't telemetry and calling a response to a court order "ratting out" is exactly the kind of behavior that makes people increasingly skeptical of privacy advocates.