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To be honest, I am concerned about the anonymity in Nostr. If you suddenly don't know, then when you view your account through the web version, then:

1) Every relay knows your referrer (site name)

2) Relay knows your IP address, and probably your npub (when there is a request to subscribe to a feed about a certain user - about you yourself)

Also, if you correspond with someone in a personal chat, everyone can find out with whom and how many messages (only they do not know the text of the correspondence). All this is quite dangerous for those who want to remain anonymous. For example, in totalitarian regimes it is very dangerous.
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LNBϟG 2y ago

Or another, simpler scenario. You are an oppositionist, and an undercover law enforcement officer sends you a personal message. You just go to watch, and your client (Android application or web version) automatically loads the image from the address specified in the message. Loads from the sender's server. And now your IP address is already known....

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shafemtol 2y ago

Any reasonably sane email client will not load remote content by default. Nostr DM clients need to behave similarly. Some email clients might load external content through a dedicated proxy. That is also problematic as it lets the sender know exactly when the email is opened.