Running your own servers where possible is probably a good idea provided you know how, but I’m not sure it’s a robust solution. You can’t run your own Facebook server or your own Twitter server. Being absent from the popular cloud platforms will make it difficult to find and interact with others in the normal ways. If you run your own email domain, your messages are still slurped at the other end as most everybody else is hosted at Google.

For those who do come under federal scrutiny, their defense is unlikely to stand up regardless. There is a whole industry for delivering 0-day exploits and the process of remotely compromising a network has been automated. Even with an air gap and full disk encryption, these are very strong adversaries. They can physically come in and tinker while you’re away.

I have a feeling maybe this isn’t browser discrimination but rather some randomized price testing stuff. Or incompetence, given that they showed me two different prices in one browser.