Stormy1701

If you're referring to the flag there are local authorities that will TRY and order you to take down the Union Jack as it can be offensive to some people. Which usually results on more flags being flown.

Is there another country on Earth where the feelings of foreigners is placed above and beyond the national flag?

I'm not going to get into how the Federation are clearly space Nazi's right now. However I'm not sure how my username should effect my feelings about freedoms we no longer enjoy in the UK. Freedoms that according to the UK government only pedophiles and far-right extremists care about. Don't forget that as our freedoms are being removed I now need to use a VPN to access Lemmy.zip because we have rampant censorship and no free speech.

Yes I know why. There are far-right people. (Possibly Musk and Trump) but then there are right wing people. People that simply want free speech, a free and open internet, privacy, border controls and not have illegal immigrants going to the head of the line for public services. Non of which we have anymore in the UK. But everyone not left wing gets lumped together and branded a far-right extremist.

The leftists are completely tolerant of others. Until you disagree with them.

I look at more of how much privacy do I want and what am I willing to give up to get it.

The more you try and keep your data private the less user friendly things tend to get. You need to find a balance that suits you while satisfying your main privacy concerns.

But staying away from "big tech" as much as you can and using a good VPN (Proton or Mullvad) is a MUST for any threat model.

I gave up on my first attempt to go fully private because I tried to go as far as is possible. Now I have struck what I think is a good balance. No iCloud, No Google and absolutley no Facebook, Twitter or Reddit.

Just because it LOOKS like you deleted it can you know for a 100% certainty that it isn't still running and hidden in the background?

It has been for years. But since Two-Tier Kier has arrived on the scene he appears to using 1984 as a how-to manual.

However it's not ALL bad. It has made a lot of people that until now didn't care about data privacy start doing what they can to keep their data out of government reach.

Until the Apple ADP fiasco I was all-in on iCloud. Now I don't use any of it. I use local encrypted storage with dummy partitions and passwords so I can give those if i'm ever forced and they still get fuck all.