why is it the same group of a dozen people* are stupidly advertising things that will get people put on watchlists just for using certain services no matter if their coins were good or bad to begin with.
Newsflash: You are already on multiple watchlists. You are already being surveilled by at least a dozen different blockchain analysis companies who sell their data and technology to governments and three letter agencies around the world. All your transactions are already being tracked, analyzed, deanonymized, and linked to all the other data you have shared and left behind every time you do anything online. If you think that you should avoid mixers so as not to draw the attention of the government and their agencies, then by that logic you also shouldn't use bitcoin at all.
yep by using a mixer gets you watchlisted by chainanalysis that sells that info to exchanges and passes info to them who pass it onto regulators. and also at the exchange level the exchanges then share your info with other exchanges at a profit.
Yeah, it's definitely the mixers. It definitely isn't the centralized exchanges like Coinbase which are reporting tens of thousands of their users to the government. It definitely isn't BitPay which demands KYC from all merchants
and all buyers, and passes that information to the government. It definitely isn't blockchain analysis firms which are taking contracts from the FBI, CIA, IRS, DEA, SEC, CBP, CFTC, and more. No, it is
definitely the mixers which are the problem here.

the governmetn does not have millions of employees to watch hundreds of millions of citizens 24/7.
They don't need to. They just spend millions of dollars buying the services of Chainalysis and other analysis companies.