It's more like playing loose and slow. For a year, all reasonable projects aiming for a pragmatic compromise between privacy and checkin tracking were reliably

It's more like playing loose and slow. For a year, all reasonable projects aiming for a pragmatic compromise between privacy and checkin tracking were reliably choked by privacy concerns. It's hardly surprising that now that opinions are shifting, the only projects remaining are those most lacking in privacy awareness. The aware have long given up. And opinions are shifting in no small part because unsurprisingly, the ineffective pen & paper tracking that was deployed instead was suffering from quite real privacy problems that weren't theoretic at all (routinely breached not by ssh keys in the wrong hands or some backdoor hidden in the code but by just asking nicely).