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They were able to de-anonymize posters from collections with 10,000's of users, tested with scrapings from Hacker News, LinkedIn, and Reddit. Not good from a privacy perspective.

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[โ€“] VibeSurgeon@piefed.social 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

The only defense would be to post only a single comment from each username, so that putting multiple points of data together becomes impossible.

[โ€“] solrize@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 day ago