Pseudonymity

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Verifying personhood without requiring public legal identity | Dead Internet Theory

Dead Internet Theory: Communities can try to prove that an account represents one distinct human without forcing that person to publish a legal name, but every method trades off privacy, accessibility, trust, and resistance to duplicate identities.

Hashed email addresses as persistent advertising identifiers | Dead Internet Theory

Dead Internet Theory: Hashing an email address changes its representation but does not necessarily make it anonymous: two systems that normalize and hash the same address can still produce the same value and match records together.