Alec Muffett <alec.muff...@gmail.com> writes: > To a first approximation I am in favour of maximising all of those, > but practically I feel that that's a foolhardy proposition - simply, > my Netflix viewing, or whatever, does not need to be anonymised.
I think it's kind of dangerous to assume whole classes of information will *never* be interesting -- if you don't anonymize at the source, they'll be recorded forever (approximately). Like, maybe we invent AI in 20 years that looks back at your Netflix viewing habits and concludes all those cat movies put you at too high a risk of owning a (now illegal) cat... But, for a practical non-future-speculative use-case: what if you're travelling but don't want Teh Internets to know that? Then you might want to do seemingly "non-anonymous" things like log into GitHub or gmail or facebook or whatever over <some anonymity tool>. I don't know how, but it would also be nice if "we" could pressure companies like Netflix to fund / participate in research allowing them to get the feature (e.g. relevant suggestions) while preserving at least some anonymity (i.e. not having a database of every show everyone has ever watched). p.s. Also practically speaking: I'm not suggesting everone start streaming Netflix over Tor ... but I *am* suggesting you should use GitHub etc over Tor ;) p.p.s gmail doesn't deal well with Tor (looks like maybe some websocket connections start failing). On the other hand, github and slack deal very well. IME. -- meejah -- tor-talk mailing list - tor-talk@lists.torproject.org To unsubscribe or change other settings go to https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-talk