LogicallyMinded on Nostr: I can see how in practice a much larger portion of ZCash users would use public ...

I can see how in practice a much larger portion of ZCash users would use public addresses than Monero users would share their view key. I also see how sharing view keys with one party is different from transacting in clear and making it available to all but it seems to me that a user who would want to acquire ZCash privately and never unshield his funds would not compromise his privacy more than someone using Monero without sharing his view key. I think Monero’s approach values privacy to a greater degree than ZCash does but it’s possible and not that complicated for someone that would want his transactions to remain private to achieve this goal with ZCash (so I think saying that ZCash is public by default is a bit of an unfair claim). Although I see the use case for view keys I also think that it opens a attack surface for a third party to force the de-anonymization of their users.