Ethically? If you would’ve bought it if you couldn’t pirate it, you should probably buy it.

It would require being couched in some kind of international law, and there really isn’t one that applies to all countries

It’s been tried before, usually as a joke. Kids magazines that say “not for sale to adults”. Gaming mods that make you pledge your first born to the developer. To work, the laws of the country the user is in will apply, and will have to be enforced.

If you can remember how to disable this, please let me know

Use TAILS on a USB drive, and keep the USB drive somewhere nobody would think of looking. Underneath the tissues in an open box, buried in a jar outside, or just on a keyring unless you’re worried about being taken in yourself

Definitely sends false info as to what kind of products you might like to buy, and maybe what kind of products are worth advertising on the sites you visit, but personally I’d rather send the message “I’m not at all interested, ignore me”

Doesn’t that mean even more agents will know what websites you visit?

Makes sense if there are. Facebook knew my phone number in advance without me having provided it. Enough friends had given permission to access their contacts that they pretty much knew who I was in advance

My work (which only has 99.9% uk based clients) has an Exchange server that automatically blocks any email that isnt one of the above, plus .co.uk and .uk.com

Saves on so much spam, 1000+ per day. I think twice in 20 years we had to manually unblock a .fr and .au domain

My bank did the same… except not really. A bunch of functions still opens in the browser, but you can only get to them via the app, not directly using just the browser.

Another option for you would just be “buy a secondhand cheap phone for banking and nothing else”

There’s a few places like that in Lanzarote. Pretty cool.