[frankmcsherry]

> That title goes to "no tracking"

This is roughly analogous to "abstinence is the best form of birth control". It's not wrong, but it also isn't particularly realistic or helpful. The reality is that people often do want to exchange data, some times because it is legally or morally mandated, and tools that allow this to be done as safely as possible are important.

If you have free cycles, you can read more here:

https://github.com/frankmcsherry/blog/blob/master/posts/2017...

[Sephr]

I'm all for these tools being published and used where appropriate. I'm only criticizing their description as the "gold standard for privacy protection" which seems disingenuous.

[legulere]

Sex is a human need. Tracking people isn’t. Collecting data on people is rarely done because of a legal or moral reason. And for those cases (like medical studies) pseudonymisation and anonymisation already works well.

[im3w1l-alt]

Abstinence only is an interesting meme. It's successful as a meme precisely because the advice does not work.