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.
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.
The only defense would be to post only a single comment from each username, so that putting multiple points of data together becomes impossible.
Again 4chan was ahead of its time.
https://wakaba.c3.cx/shii/shiichan