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by SomeStupidPoint 3361 days ago
It also might be on purpose -- if you have a signature, then unsigned things aren't you, right?

I suspect it was largely accidental, though. Heck, there's been private entities I know who have ended up with tells that pinned them to timezones.

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Easy to do with e.g. postings to forums, including those about bitcoin...
I've generally given up trying to conceal anything above what city I'm in.

There are just too many information leaks that can be used to track people back to regions, and I honestly don't care if people know I'm one of millions of people.

(Whoops, there goes another -- there's only 53 US metros above 1mil people and 34 above 2mil.)