And to underline your point - its main office is in Germany :)
This is especially also the case, because of the post-WWII history of East Germany. The Stasi managed to subdue the entire population, mainly with surveillance methods.
And this was before the internet. When they still had to actually go out and infiltrate people's homes in order to place down bugs (microphones).
The worst part about this for me, is that this is not just an unfortunate fate that Germans in particular have to be worrisome about. The only reason other nations are less worried, is because they're collectively less aware of this having happened, of it being entirely possible for this to happen, again.
But considering that Firefox now also spies on your entire browsing history with CliqZ, not even they are trustworthy anymore. StaSiFox, ffs.
mobile internet is very expensive, 20 eur for 5gb, there is almost no street view, blocking content on youtube. high percentage of german startups are just copying ( famous rocket internet ). that are just some examples, that are not so great starting point to become leader in digital.
Actually it was far easier than that: 1 in every 6 Eastern Germans was knowingly or not, voluntarily or not, a Stasi informant.
As a german I envy you for your drug laws.
(I don’t work in FS, this is just what I can gather from reading the docs).
Thus releasing this and possibly pushing workload and costs onto other banks from business side makes sense.
See the HN thread from friday, where Mozilla employees even defend it as a good thing that Firefox by default now sends everything you type into the URL bar to CliqZ.
Yes it is now
> they'll just get overriden when I login to my Sync account
They explicitly won’t, the new feature overrides all your synced settings and explicitly defaults to sending all your URLs to the ad and tracking company Burda Media Group.
Germany is a great country for stuff like this. They have a relatively high share of Linux users, OpenStreetMap usage, etc. I feel like they're very critical towards their own country and don't take things for granted (not the "we're so proud of our country" idea). As a Dutchman, I like Germany.