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Jerrrrrrrrytoday at 7:09 PM1 replyview on HN

Throwaway accounts using "clever" turns of phrase can often be anonymized by double click, right-clicking -> googling their witty pun and seeing their the sole instance elsewhere, on Twitter, Facebook, etc

If I see a couple words I dont know in a row, I can infer a posters real name.

Id be more specific but any example is doxxing, literally so


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plagiaristtoday at 10:02 PM

I assume one's vocabulary is basically a fingerprint, even if one doesn't use unique turns of phrase. Domain knowledge just leaks in and we aren't conscious of it being identifiable.