You are watched anyway! Let's make it more difficult for them. If you are partly anonymizing yourself, like using a mixer to receive coins on your main exchange wallet, log-in in your bank account via ProtonVPN and ProtonMail, then yeah, you are watched but if you do things a little bit different, you won't be their main target.
What franky does not get is that I am in the highlights for using Mixers BECAUSE every body else is scared of using them. Had Mixing, using Proton Mail and encryption at every single corner been the common way of using technology, not only would they not be a highlight any more but Governments would have a very hard time keeping up with controlling and monitoring.
firstly governments do not watch everything everyone does in the first place.
they dont have enough politicians agents to watch screens for everyones daily activities
put it this way the IRS has 80k employees meaning 1 employee per 3125 working age american
with weekends off and 4 weeks vacation thats 13 people they would have to audit in 8-10 hours for each persons whole year of activity if they were to watch everyone.
meaning without leaving the office all employees would only have about 30 minutes to audit every working age person
instead they delegate that task to NON-government entities, like centralised exchanges, money services, and financial institutions.
where by governments only receive data about suspect transactions that meet a threshold target of suspicion, because it takes hours to investigate someone properly
and for the multiple time the thing which you want to ignore, but shouldnt.. is that using a mixer adds points to your suspicion rating with all financial services who do share data with each other and do report suspect behaviour which mixing is listed as suspect
so if your concern is "government overwatch" you are i will say this again much more likely to be on a government watchlist by using a mixer. you are much more likely to have data shared by using a mixer
and yes when you buy coin. and buy produce. they can find out info about you. then when you put the remaining change through mixers.. and then put that mixed coin into a financial service. they see the before and after traces of you and link it together
where as regular folk wont get reported to a government agency. because they didnt use a mixer to even flag a suspect threshold to even be invested by financial services to then not be reported to government
oh and by the way the couple that done the social engineering hack on bitfinex and stole 120k coins and then used mixers and AEC. they got caught
and those involved in silk road got caught too even when their coins went through mixers.
so although mixers are promoted to offer privacy. they in actual fact highlight people to be put on watch lists and be found out more than someone that just buys furniture or electronics without using a mixer
learn what the regulations actually do mention to atleast know what to avoid if you want to stay off watch lists. stop relying on what you hope and dream the systems should be, and whats told to you by sponsored idiots just wanting a pay day.. . and actually learn what is actually happening away from idiot sales pitches. learn the good and bad. find out how things actually work outside of sponsored snake oil sales pitches. and then learn how to evade being highlighted
the sponsored promoters of mixers dont care about end user security. they just care about making money out of selling an idea