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Mailbox.org lets you keep your own private key.
every email provider lets you "keep your own private key" as long as you do encryption using the interoperable OpenPGP standard with software running on your own computer. many email providers will recommend that you do this and will even instruct you about how to (eg, the more reputable options in this thread such as migadu, mailbox.org, posteo, and even fastmail all have instructions for how to use some implementation of pgp to encrypt your email).
meanwhile any company selling non-standard "email encryption" (eg, proton and tuta) which is not pgp-compatible (or in the corporate world, s/mime is also a standard...) is in the snake oil business and should be boycotted regardless of which shitty youtubers they're sponsoring this week.
I hope more people pay attention to your response. Spot on.