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Yes it was always performative but it was systemically targeted and dismantled by Robbie Starbuck (and his ilk) using boycotts (edit: and harassment) campaigns.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robby_Starbuck

I've been ramping up my de-googling for this exact reason, I wish I had done it years ago but complacency is a bitch

The right killed dei solely using boycotts

We can only control what we can control

Yeah it's a bit of a "for now" thing and worth keeping an eye on Italy. To their credit, they don't offer services in Italy itself anymore after the "privacy shield" bullshit because "it goes against their mission" (for what that's worth lol)

Afaik, there's not many other choices for port forwarding

Airvpn offers port forwarding