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You're paying for redundancies in different regions, migrations, backups, upgrades, maintenance, generally not having to worry about losing your data. The storage costs nothing.

That doesn't address the original point which is whatever's shared has to exist on all machines.

Either way, you would need to backup your data if you were self hosting Nextcloud or friends so you do need multiple copies of it anyway.

As someone who doesn't know much about war tactics: why was that tank just sitting in a very open position, with its hatch open and how did the fighter approach it without getting noticed?

In most "free" countries digitally cracking or cloning phones or trying to scare the owner to unlock as well as remote exploitation is legal. Beating people up in interrogation rooms isn't. Either way, GOS has a panic mode that will immediately erase the phone in a cryptographically secure fashion.

Malware targeting individuals rather than servers do not need privilege escalation. They just need to run as the user and swipe cookies/credentials/wallets etc. Privilege escalation would allow them to do catastrophic damage but that's not the point in that case.

If you don't trust an extension then you shouldn't install it in the first place. If you think an extension might be nefarious, trying to work around that by limiting its internet connection is risky.

majority of unixporn posts are people copy pasting premade hyprland configs so..

How dare those people make and release software for free but don't dedicate more of their time to me!

Browsers allow websites to have persistent storage apart from cookies.

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/IndexedDB_API

The user not having a choice is dumb either way. VPN users are the minority.

Browsers (except for Tor) doing this in the name of privacy is so dumb. Our timezones are already apparent due to our IP addresses. Not only does this not hide the timezone but also makes the user more fingerprintable. Now I'm the dumbass from Ohio who's browser reports UTC timezone for some reason.