This is having a chilling effect on my use of all digital services. I no longer keep my phone on. I think about whether I should click on links that might con

This is having a chilling effect on my use of all digital services. I no longer keep my phone on. I think about whether I should click on links that might contain content I would not want associated with me, even though my interest is in learning. I treat every news article I read like clicking on it is a vote for or against something. I add all kinds of extensions to my browser to protect privacy. I use a VPN to keep my ISP from spying on me. I download all my email and delete it on the servers so that theoretically I'm the only one who has a copy. It has made my life more difficult and uncertain. I've done research in computer security so I have some idea of how to protect myself, but I still find some data leaks out. I know all networked computers are vulnerable and have little faith my home network is secure though I've locked it down as best I can. Computers and networks have become a pain to use and their benefit to me keeps going down. I would not be surprised at all if things like ransomware attacks destroy any remaining public utility of computers. Heaven help us if the USA actually gets into a blatant cyberwar (instead of the current semi-covert ones). The longer the USA goes without any kind of data privacy laws the more it looks like that is intentional.