When reading those papers, pay attention to which transactions they are referring to. Some of the early transactions I believe are linkable, but the newer ones

When reading those papers, pay attention to which transactions they are referring to. Some of the early transactions I believe are linkable, but the newer ones are not as RingCT and other features went from optional to mandatory. Check out https://getmonero.org/2017/04/19/an-unofficial-response-to-an-empirical-analysis-of-linkability.html https://getmonero.org/2017/04/19/an-unofficial-response-to-a...