Few decades of not starting a war is a very weak qualifier. Let's start with "100 years of not participating (!) in wars, not even in a supporting role, while respecting people's human rights, democracy, freedom of speech and privacy" and then the country has some kind of backbone to lean on when offering it's enlightened perspective.
There aren't many countries that would qualify (Sweden fails because of the Snowden case) and I suspect your country is not one of those. What country are you from?
It's all about risk assessment, risk analysis, scenarios, probabilities, threat vectors, worst/probable/best cases of cost/benefit, etc.
What are the chances that Putin wants to get to you? How probable is it? Does he have better options than through seeing your browsing history? What happens if he actually gets it - what's the worst that can happen?
It's really all a big nonsense about nothing. You are most probably just an ordinary human, just like me. We are not even worthy of such an attention. Be realistic and know your position, role and pecking order in the world order. Be a cog and live peacefully. :-)
Yeah, I just think that after Snowden (but before him as well) it's naive to think that we in the West are free from being spied on. The methods are more refined, I'll say that.
It’s not that it’s non-western, it’s just that the countries I don’t trust are mostly dictatorships or something very close to it.