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.

    • Mac@mander.xyz
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      4 days ago

      location: “social media”
      likes: “writing”
      desires: “to stop”

      Got your number, pal.

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        you honestly probably could get my number that way. It’s public on the internet together with more words from me (for work).

        I think it’s time to delete my lemmy…