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by mym1990 1238 days ago
Can you give insight into how that top 10 chart demonstrates anonymity?
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Sure, feel free to point out how it makes me less anonymous.
Not saying these are necessarily all yours but the cluster of accounts O__________O, billme, saycheese, wonderous, endlessly, nxzero, v2hle0thslzrav2 are all in each others top 5 or so which is usually a sign of a good match and unless you are saying that you never revealed any identifying info in any of the several hundred comments you have made there is likely some loss of anonymity. If you used a VPN consistently on one account but didn't on one of your earlier accounts then the whole point of the VPN goes right out the window if someone say gets a subpoena.
One of the advantages to being anonymous all the time is nothing is tied to an identity; not an IP address, not a physical address, etc.
I just really didn’t understand why that list was posted and then why you responded to it the way you did. Is it because it identified a common writing style that is shared by some others?
I guess that the rest of the users in the list aren't him / her, or the user accounts that belong to this person are also anonymous?