No, using a unique address for every payment is very important! While it may not affect you personally, reusing addresses is very bad for overall network privacy. It makes entity resolution much easier, and breaks the property of profile unlinkability.
You should be treating addresses more like single-use, disposable accounts than longstanding pseudonyms.
You do make a good point about network privacy. If you don't generate unique addresses, you might discourage your customers from wanting to link their coins to your account (even if they have done nothing wrong, just to avoid second-order effects.)
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No, using a unique address for every payment is very important! While it may not affect you personally, reusing addresses is very bad for overall network privacy. It makes entity resolution much easier, and breaks the property of profile unlinkability.
You should be treating addresses more like single-use, disposable accounts than longstanding pseudonyms.
You do make a good point about network privacy. If you don't generate unique addresses, you might discourage your customers from wanting to link their coins to your account (even if they have done nothing wrong, just to avoid second-order effects.)
And why does this Baidu subsidiary care about this damage?