> because web browsers leak 100x more information by default anyway. I don’t quite feel convinced yet by this argument. For example, one essential difference

> because web browsers leak 100x more information by default anyway. I don’t quite feel convinced yet by this argument. For example, one essential difference is that while it’s true that my web browser does have those leaks, I can be reasonably sure that it’s only leaking to specific hosts, i.e. the one I’m visiting and its embedded resources. Tracking on the IP source address level, however, would be a whole other thing: that means that whoever happens to see the byte stream can now track who is visiting what. That includes, for example, my ISP, all large Internet exchanges, and anyone tapping into those.