It would be bad for the chain analysis company you are funding. That is generally accepted as a positive in the privacy community, because these are the companies that spread the notion that Bitcoin is not fungible.
Explain to me how zkSNACKs funding chain analysis company is a good thing for anyone other than the chain analysis company itself.
You are confused, the coinjoin services zkSNACKs sells are a
bad thing for chain analysis companies because their coinjoins create a huge hole in their data set that breaks the ability to track participants.
zkSNACKs can't say they believe in privacy if they're spying on you at the same time.
zkSNACKs isn't spying on you. They can't spy on anyone due to the IP address and xpub address protections built into the open source Wasabi client:
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