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I don't think this approach applies in such situations, and wouldn't be a good idea if it did.

It may help with categories of sites, like "did you visit a news site today" or "did you watch porn".



Systems that don't deal well with edge cases aren't so great.

For people who don't really need to care about privacy, I guess that differential privacy is good enough. But there's a gotcha there, for people who ought to care, but are clueless. I'm reminded of that ex cop in Philadelphia, who believed Freenet's claims about plausible deniability.

Edit: A prudent standard for calling something "[foo] privacy" is arguably PGP.




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