It’s just a bunch of theatrics and virtue signaling. A lot of web users (like the one that didn’t want his requests going to the US) really overestimate their s

It’s just a bunch of theatrics and virtue signaling. A lot of web users (like the one that didn’t want his requests going to the US) really overestimate their self-importance in the world of national security. NSA/CIA/FBI barely keep up with data regarding actual threats, they aren’t spending time worrying about random people on GitHub. (Referring to the commenter on the EasyList pull request.) Literally no one cares that you watch excessive amounts of fetish porn, visit socialist workers party websites, or have a secret crush on David Hasselhoff or sell a few grams of cocaine on the side. Your browsing history is uninteresting on its own. It might become interesting if you were to also a target of an investigation. But it isn’t like NSA has some red light that starts flashing in their headquarters based on the contents of a web search of some random guy in Bratislava or wherever. If you are actually a terrorist, smuggler, human trafficker, weapons dealer, you aren’t commenting on pull requests to EasyList. Most people are boring and, despite what they may think of themselves, aren’t even close to being a surveillance target. It’s also ridiculous theater to think that the country a server is physically in matters one bit. To be clear, I am not defending NSA, I am just saying that most of us are uninteresting in that regard.