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You literally get a button when you first install it asking whether you want these things. One click and they're disabled. Also OP post is about privacy not bloat and these features will only improve your privacy over using some webmail.
All google stuff is either removed or toggleable from settings.
What's wrong with that? It's a good deal larger than mozilla's
Not sure about the encryption tbh. I've never used any mail service that properly supported it so haven't tried.
Any reason why, aside from encryption?
That's why they have a built in adblocker.