I don’t think caller id blocking would work with the police, they almost certainly have the ability to unmask your number if they want.

I find that abusive on its own but let’s not forget about the fact that now you have victims of domestic violence being forced to answer hidden numbers in case it’s welfare, or the cops, or their abusive spouse.

By the same logic, he could avoid system dependencies by writing his own OS. But it obviously doesn’t scale.

I’m all for an anti-library ethos, as long as the pros and cons are carefully considered and wheels are only reinvented when the cost/risk ratio is right.

But I’m also under no illusion that Google has better analytics sources.