On an individual level you’re probably right, if the government wants to track you, they might find a way—so this is more about doing the right thing because yo

On an individual level you’re probably right, if the government wants to track you, they might find a way—so this is more about doing the right thing because you hope more people do it. Google analytics, for example, is mainly problematic because everyone uses it, which creates a graph where at Google’s end, ip numbers can get a very detailed surfing history, as users hop from GA using server to GA using server. One person using Piwik changes nothing, many people using it will.