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Scratchcards are sold at ecommerce sites which makes them significantly more accessible. If you really want to be "anonymous" (with very big quotes) you can buy gift cards for those sites with cash then order to a collection point. Otherwise, sure, it's not as good as paying with cash but all there's a trail for is that you bought Mullvad credits that cannot be tied to any account.

You would be able to do this for a short while but unless you can make an agent that's indistinguishable from you or you already have very bot-like traffic, they'd catch up pretty quickly. They aren't going to just let a trillion dollar industry die out because some bots are generating traffic.

Aah my web client wasn't showing any links in your original message.

good source in case anyones interested. I'm fine with them generally being available.

Not seeing where it says install arch

I'd much prefer paying cash to get a scratch card from a retailer like Mullvad does.

It doesn't break that often.

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.