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by ktta 967 days ago
Not if they use a password hash like Argon2 or scrypt
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Even then it is theatre because if you know the IP address you want to check it's trivial to see if there's a match.
And this is why such a hash will still be considered personal data under legislation like GDPR.
But that's very heavy to compute at scale...
True, but also it's a blogging platform - does it really have that kind of scale to be concerned with?
Probably not, I was mainly thinking if that kind of solution was to be adopted at a scale like Google Analytics.