From a commenter at Hacker News
Not sure I agree this is a reason to avoid taking precautions but it's an interesting viewpoint.
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It's not like your anonymity is one in a billion. In fact, your security habits make you stick out like a flashing red light.
Perfect anonymity: 1 in 7e9
Fluent English speaker: 1 in 7e8
Tor user: 1 in 3e6
Tor user today: 1 in 1e5
Fluent English speaker and Tor user today: 2 in 10,000
Fluent English speaker and Tor user today and accessed both Google Translate and Outlook.com outside Tor today (because Google and Microsoft block Tor exit nodes): 1 in 1,000
All of the above and purchased a Kingston Digital DataTraveler from Amazon in the last year: 1 in 10
Not sure I agree this is a reason to avoid taking precautions but it's an interesting viewpoint.
