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As a user of a service, unless it is for learning or paranoia reasons it makes no sense to try to self host the same it doesn't make sense to have your own mechanic workshop in case your car breaks or your own hospital in case you need medical attention.

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The mechanic only offers the service. He works on our equipment and then he is done with it. At no point the mechanic keeps a part of car with himself and use it for his own adavantage. Nor he can suspend your access to your car. In fact if he does pull something like that the system will run a full enquiry into it and punish.

As a user of service I want guarantee that my data will be processed as per my requirement and then it will be left alone.

>As a user of service I want guarantee that my data will be processed as per my requirement and then it will be left alone.

This is totally orthogonal to self hosting. You can ask for a service to be operated for you and also ask for your data to not be processed in any way and be accessible only to you. Of course this is not free, which is what most people want and what you're mixing up here.

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