(Nesting)
I forgot to ask, then is ned's quote out of date too?
I don't know.
Anything along those lines is in the distant future at this point, so I'd say it is up in the air.
I know the Steemit devs and community are very concerned about privacy, so I wouldn't expect anything invasive that wasn't voluntary.
I hope so. I'd love to see them abandon CDNs (they are tracking proxies) and the use of Google analytics and custom search, but that's another story for another day!