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> Or does this -just happen to be- the kind of shady data gathering that they're warning against?

How? There are no forms on the website.

Wouldn't it actually be logical for a person advocating for privacy not disclosing his identity?

When I visited the page there was a field to enter your email to "sign" a pledge of refusal.

The state I saw appears to be preserved in the first Wayback Machine snapshot: