[vnorilo]

I think there are a couple of levels to this. I try to avoid adtech-driven stuff because I prefer other kinds of products which come out of different business incentives. On a practical level, that's what drives my online privacy habits.

On a more sinister level, even though a malicious state seems very distant (Nordics here), given how many such there are in the world, it is definitely not impossible. We must avoid being frog-boiled to accept surveillance. Even if I don't have anything to hide, we must present "herd anonymity" to shield those who really need it when shit hits the fan. This is the much more abstract part of my privacy philosophy.

[Santosh83]

The crux of the Tor project was all about herd anonymity. Your traffic blends in with millions of other Tor users. Unfortunately global passive surveillance, flooding the network with malicious nodes and targetted exploits of the browser and OS mean that very strong anonymity is still not possible, even with a relatively 'extreme' solution like Tor.

[h0p3]

Forgive me for being late in replying to you (sometimes I sit on things for a while). Are you suggesting that we must find a way to democratically federate the problem of trusting particular mixnet servers? What solutions would you suggest? This seems a silly exercise, so feel free to ignore it: if you were to redesign the internet from the ground up, what would it look like, particularly with respect to this problem?