> Just come to grips with the fact you're participating in the sale of my (or whoever's) private data. Hope you sleep well! I think it's really sad that the op

> Just come to grips with the fact you're participating in the sale of my (or whoever's) private data. Hope you sleep well! I think it's really sad that the open source community has historically cultivated a culture which doesn't recognize this kind of paranoia as a lack of mental wellness. I think it's because the zealotry comports well with the extreme amount of energy needed to bootstrap the ecosystem into existence. You can care about privacy while being unrealistic about why you don't truly have it and never will, because of how much of a risk it is to the powers that be. You can live in a world ruled by proxy wars between gigantic political superpowers and empires who control the upstream levers of the macroeconomy to ensure that the world will always go in a direction opposite to what you'd prefer it to be. It's been like this for thousands if not tens or hundreds of thousands of years. But moreover, you can and likely do live in a society, full of people who will always value convenience over the freedom you seem to cherish. But even you likely are willing to give up some freedom and privacy for some convenience, unless you employ private security personnel to guard your private compound. And my guess is that if you were inclined in that direction, you wouldn't really be posting on HN. Short of that, to live in a modern society is to some degree accept this compromise and to accept one's own hypocrisy -- and my heart goes out to you as much as to myself because the existential anguish of this never goes away. Nonetheless, it is generally historically accepted that as we grow older, we are to develop the ability to constructively manage around this and gain the wisdom to do so. Perhaps the reason you sarcastically asked GP that you "hope you sleep well" is because you are projecting and you know that you yourself do not. My advice to you and those of your ilk: stop obsessing over theoeretical purity and get on with enjoying your life in the scarce time you have left on this planet. You'll have far less regrets at the end. And you will finally sleep well.