The futility of trying to find anonymity
As I'm sure no small number of you are aware, Proton recently was asked to turn over information on someone the US government wanted. I unfortunately recently signed up for their paid service and now feel like I've been had just a little by their promises. While they never fully violated their claims, I should have done more reading between the lines and also actually worked on checking to see if their protections extended properly to non-swiss citizens.
This does bring me to whole new line of thought, why am I as a human, not able to sign up for something in a way that is guaranteed to be fully anonymous and just use it most of the time? I feel like that's one of the truest perks of being online is that you can be anonymous and not have to worry that if you signed in using an account tied to X email that you're now being tracked on services A, B and C even though there's no account you made on those sites. I think that end of day I should be able to just fully not be monitored online without my express consent at ALL times, not out of a desire to do evil or to commit a crime, I just do not understand how we got to the point where the assumption should be that every single thing you've ever typed is in a big file somewhere on a server owned by one of the least scrupulous billionaires out there.
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