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by meowkit 18 days ago
Its inevitable because of capital incentives.

Someone makes money identifying you and selling that data to advertisers.

If your pseudonym is famous/infamous someone makes money / cultivates attention if they identify you.

There is a basic instinct to uncover the unknown.

Unless the above systems are disabled then the drive to unify identity will be ceaseless.

1 comments

Parasitic advertisement is not a basic instinct.