[warkdarrior]

I think the implication is this will become trivial and trivially automated, no human investigator needed. I bet there will be plugins in one year's time to right click on a post and get a full report on who the author is.

[JohnMakin]

agreed and the new frontier here will probably be obfuscation by creating false positives with these same tools, but that kind of renders the web unusable in my mind.

[arctic-true]

I had this same thought. Seems fairly easy to just put off a strong false signal. If you don’t want anyone to know that you live in Finland, make a point to constantly mention how much you enjoy living in Peru.

[0xdeadbeefbabe]

Wouldn't it also become trivial to pretend to be another author?

[john_strinlai]

it may become more trivial to llm your comments/blog/whatever into a different "voice", but there is so much that can be used for de-anonymization that the llm-assisted technique dont address.

for example, you may change the content of your comments, but if you only ever comment on the same topic, the topic itself is a signal. when you post (both day and time), frequency of posts, topics of interest, usernames (e.g. themes or patterns), and much more.