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by pyjammas 3010 days ago
> Furthermore, the whole "no data collected" has any value from the perspective of the user only when using real names.

That might be true for you, but I've more than once had to ditch an old nick because over time I'd let slip enough specifics that identifying me would be (theoretically) possible. It's all a matter of degrees, but 'no data collected' is definitely valuable.

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Yeah, that's why I switched to using just random names. Old nicknames and gamertags became even easily googleable.