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In practice the US HQ could mandate a security update that secretly uploads all data to the US but that's a whole other can of worms that I don't think anyone is ready to open.
Now I get it things happen and you gotta do what you gotta do but then you aren't on the happy path anymore and you can't have the same expectations.
The lifelong craving is the bigger issue.
The era when people paid an affordable fee for software they could use however they wanted was much better. But it got squeezed out by free software on the one side and serf-ware on the other.
The proof is in the pudding and the pudding is rotten.
Edit: then again maybe it's unfair of me to blame the decline in paid for software on open source.
It could work like this. "Hey OS I would like to process these pages* are they good to go? If not could you fetch and lock them for me" and then if they are ready you process them knowing it won't fault, and if they are not you do something else and try again later.
It's a sort of hybrid of the mmap and fread paradigms in that there are both explicit read requests but the kernel can also get you data on its own initiative if there are spare resources for it.
* to amortize syscall overhead.