I think you are getting privacy mixed up with anonymous.
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I'm not. Everything I said applies to privacy. You can be fully anonymous and still have poor privacy if everything you do is tracked and correlated.
The lady on the left /is/ standing out like a sore thumb. Obviously trackable, but who is she?
Identity or lack their of is measured by the size of the anonymity set. 1/99999
As your anonymity set shrinks you become less anonymous, and whatever data you reveal /can/ reduce your anonymity set.
I feel like both are tools to protect you, but one is asking for permission, and the other is not.
Anonymity is also a foot gun because like you said, once your anonymity set is small enough, you have to then ask for forgiveness.
But yeah, the multidimensional aspect is important to understand, e.g. x axis is anonymity set, and y axis is magnitude of data.