Tom

You seem to be aware of many things.

Just for communication you are using more unfree tools then free and more then in the other categories.

If you just want to save the text to read later, go with HTML.

If you want to archive it with graphical elements and embedded images, PDF is the better choice.

What I find kind of strange is that they have used Gmail before. Feels not to be the best decision for a VPN service which offers anonymous access.

Even better that they have switched now.

Briar has that.