~~You mean like when you visit a Google service (Gmail, Google, Maps ...) on a non Chrome browser it bugs incessantly to switch?~~
~~It's pervasive and it stinks, but it's not Microsoft. It's our current capitalist gestalt.~~
EDIT: I'll be damned: It's not on Google anymore .... I either imagined it, or they removed their nagging. My bad. Thanks to the commenters who pointed it out.
They have been stuffing ballot boxes for decades.
To be honest. If you’re online you should expect to be compromised. If you want to be privacy obsessed- focus on countries that allow you to be offline. That is an aspect Germany and Switzerland are a bit unique.
By comparison Scandinavia has a high degree of trust in government and everything is online and connected. It’s convenient but also - if you do not trust your data on the government’s hands - you’re not gonna like it here.
Germany allows you to be more … disconnected.
I only know western countries but from those I’d say Germany and Switzerland.
It’s highly respected in Germany to have a low online profile - pay in cash, stay off online systems.
I feel it’s similar in Switzerland - just with military training, more guns, mined bridges and nazi gold.
Basically also why Swedish barns are red. I presume those two stories and red barn origins are related.