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Originally Posted by ApK
If you think you're still in control when you share the data with any entity (assuming you mean corporate entity, and not, like, your cat) then it sounds like it's you who have been fooled.
It's all just a question of who you choose to trust, and how much.
"Three can keep a secret if two of them are dead."
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There are layers to this. Take a look at the way Vivaldi implements syncing (not to mention how it limits its tracking, or how it does page translations). Or how other services, too, provide encrypted storage that the service itself does not have the key to; even JotForm offers a method to achieve this via public key encryption (it's not very good yet, but it's a start). At the other end look at reputational options (eg: Duck Duck Go, StartPage and some encrypted email solutions) that, yes, require trust - and so you might choose
not to offer them your deepest darkest secrets - but then you're not losing anything here, it's simply a different agreement to the one you're used to being offered. In between those are combinations and variations on the theme - and probably some I have yet to see - but all based on the assumption that your data remains under your control as far as that is possible.
I'm not trying to claim it is all perfect, but real options do exist to achieve much more than people seem to be assuming, and they would get better rapidly if there was a greater demand for them. If we demand more of our service providers then they can provide it.