This is the thing. It's additional info in the events. Don't know if a normie user would understand that.
And what about niche clients for a subset of users tagging the events? Very easy to track them.
I don't think it's anyones business what client I used to create notes. If I want to advertise your client I should be able to turn it on. On by default is a big no from me, sorry. Anything my client appends to my notes without my permission is too much imo. Tags are generally not user-facing.
To be clear, I have been very against this for a really long time, but I'm a nostr nobody. I've had it on the roadmap for my signer since the spec introduced it.
https://github.com/VnUgE/NVault?tab=readme-ov-file#extension
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I mean... There may be some.... interesting clients, eventually.
If you go from client to client, it's similar to a browsing history.
Sure I could see you swapping from desktop to mobile and so on
I think any client that injects non-critical tags into events by DEFAULT is wrong. Build a better UX that enables users to understand their purpose. I will continue to build tools that enable hard-core users to strip these tags before signing. Client's can break this if they want, but I hope they choose to accept the signed result as authoritative.