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If privacy is a sort of anarchy where only the (technically) strong preserve their privacy, what good is the theory and stuff in max's book? It seems I should be reading The Hitchhiker's Guide to Anonymity not Praxeology of Privacy.
Praxeology is the study of human action. It's a social science discipline that attempts to describe human behavior.
The title implies an attempt to describe how privacy relates to behavior (or perhaps the other way around).
Hmm you should probably read both, but for the latter to be efficient you literally are required to become a German resident or it is all for nothing. So maybe stick with Max' book for the moment.
Also, it doesn't have to be this way. For example, Apple has been pretty much privacy-enhancing in many areas, except of course corporate failure #1 to identify oneself as a threat consumers need to be protected against too. But, we can build software and hardware that is privacy preserving - although sometimes one would need to creatively find holes in laws - and do the hard work for people.
I think that step 1 is awareness and step 2 is habits though, and only then, when you understand the habits, can you automate the important things.
Yeah exactly (and you're making part of my point for me.)
One of the nym-preservation things I taught myself to do is to mix up work/wake times among nyms, and sometimes multitask (as treacherous as that is on its own!) across different electronic identities using multiple (and unlinked) devices... it's hard at times. It's also probably not worth it for most. I refuse to sleep at times other than when I am sleepy though, so there can still be patterns.
The correlation points start at your modem hardware - be it a phone or a fibre router and from there on propagates. I do like that we have randomized hardware identities for wifi connectivity now though. That's a win. But overall, from a time & place perspective (with or without your actual name attached to it) I think that the chance that anyone can truly evade this while using non-burner phones and laptops, is minimal.