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Comment by ybceo

You're thinking about browser fingerprinting (client-side), but my post is about service-level anonymity (server-side).

Browser fingerprinting: "Your unique combination of extensions/settings makes you identifiable among other users."

Service anonymity: "There are no other users to compare you against because we don't collect identifying data."

When you sign up with just a random 32-char string, there's nothing to fingerprint. No email to correlate. No IP logs to analyze. No usage patterns to build a profile from.

Fingerprinting matters when services collect behavioral data. We architected our way out of having that data to begin with.

parent ybceo 10 months ago

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