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I understand your concerns about Gmail, but I personally feel my privacy is better protected by being an obscure needle in a giant haystack. There is no way of knowing, other than via their reassurances, that any email provider, big or small, is protecting your privacy. How do you know, for example, who might have the capabilities of reading your personal email? If something like that were going on at Gmail the chances are it wouldn't be my email they are reading, and furthermore there would be all sorts of protocols and security checks in place to prevent that. At a smaller provider the same technical person who is in charge of security might also have access to anyone's account. Besides, despite all the money they throw at it, I almost never see these fabled "targeted ads" they speak of, and I block ads routinely when possible.
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