[sidpatil]

They don't want to deanonymize themselves.

[brewdad]

Yes, but too often the vagueness is just silly.

"I work for a major search engine (rhymes with Scroogle) and...blah"

Just come out and say it at that point.

[throwaway2037]

That is exactly my point. I guess I can feed these types of posts into ChatGPT 17 and it will tell me the name of the company, city, etc. Soon enough!