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The design part is that when bad guys or government agents show up to collect historical data, it isn't there.

I agree that for even better privacy, i.e. to protect against us being ordered to keep data in the future, you should search via Tor, reject cookies, etc etc.

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well first i think you should be commended on having these policies and I think that this is the best you can get with a website. However an adversary can force you to change these policies. While an adversary can also force a developer of a free software project (private by design) to put in some kind ofof backdoor, in theory the target will be able to avoid this by reviewing the patches made to a project, in practoce I imagine a single target could be compromised by this backdoor, but i imagine it would soon be discovered. This is the key difference

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