[swingandamiss]

I rarely type my password or PIN. And if I did, I'd make sure to hide my screen. But I frequently casually read HN, reddit, and other sites casually and in public places. It would be nice if my username wasn't so visible to others.

[al_borland]

A co-worker of mine ran into issues of people trying to read his screen while traveling, and he was doing stuff for work. He ended up getting a screen protector with a privacy filter, so people couldn’t read it off axis. It seemed pretty effective.

Nearly every website puts the username in the top corner. A screen protector seems more pragmatic than trying to petition every website to change well established conventions that millions (or billions) of users are already familiar with.

[d3Xt3r]

Regardless, a privacy screen guard or glasses would be a much better solution for overall privacy and not just hiding your username.