[footoverhand]

It would be much better to not trust Internet services with your security, because you'd still have to trust them.

A better solution would be to add your own encryption on top of all of your communications, and to toss out your cell phone. Patterns can still be created by what websites your IP visits (or any VPN exit that is linked to you), who you contact, and where you go. Deploying a relatively secure communications system ends up with you talking to a few people "securely", but not anonymously.

It also depends on how much you trust your OS (Microsoft has been working with the NSA since 2007, in what ways, we may never know).

[Zigurd]

Google or any other online service could gain a lot of trust by offering open source clients that enable encryption by default and easy to use ephemeral-key systems for real time communication and PKI for email and documents in their cloud.