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by SoSoRoCoCo 1987 days ago
Your content isn't anonymous: who you are is distilled from what you say, creating a unique fingerprint. Doesn't matter if you your name is hnaccy or SoSoRoCoCo.

I change details, times, various things, just a little. Whenever I need to make a reference as a citiation, 20% of the facts change just slightly. Sometimes I'm a woman, sometimes I'm from a different state, sometimes it is a different company I worked for. These details don't matter to the content, but there is so much contradiction in my history that I hope to defeat the algorithms. I got the idea from how Firefox defeats browser fingerprinting (or tries to).

I also create new accounts routinely.

However, even HN knows who I am because I occasionally forget to use my randomized VPN, and HN keeps track of you.

I know this because I was banned from an IP address once and had to renew it from my ISP to come back to HN.