Wait, double hop is privacy theater in this case. If you control all the proxy gateways it doesn’t matter if you hop around them.
Even Apple’s privacy is technically more so than this although that’s not saying much. There are two entities in their mix — but a simple collusion between the two entities ends that privacy too.
It does seem like privacy theatre, anonymity protocols like Tor are carefully designed to make malicious cooperation difficult.
This is true from a technical trust perspective, but less true from a legal liability perspective.
If company A sells a product to users with the promise “it will be delivered by company B and we have no knowledge of what you do with it”, and then it turns out there the two companies had an agreement to share data and void that promise, company A is in for a world of hurt when the truth comes out.
Given the small number of people who are aware of and care about this stuff, it would be so much less expensive and less risky to just skip the lies in the first place.
What’s the upside of an elaborate architecture that is all window dressing, which creates a ton of liability, and which fraud likely to be discovered because it’s all written down in code and contracts?