# Can categories be viewed by others who don't have the access authority?

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**Category:** Product Support\
**Created:** [2017 年6 月 8 日 16:49 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/can-categories-be-viewed-by-others-who-dont-have-the-access-authority/64169 "2017-06-08T16:49:35Z")\
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作者： ![xiasummer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/xiasummer/32/82790_2.png) [@xiasummer](https://meta.discourse.org/u/xiasummer)\
发布日期： [2017 年6 月 11 日 02:28 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/can-categories-be-viewed-by-others-who-dont-have-the-access-authority/64169/6 "2017-06-11T02:28:12Z")

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Hi, yes that is what I wanted. I don’t want any one read my own discourse as a notebook of mine.

But Why I see

![](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/3X/0/3/039d925f92f02d8023848a3a6e1a05289400f3bf.png)

The anonymous view is

![](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/3X/c/2/c21ce84f1f81f65e2785c2745742b8e9f6273974.png)

I’m wondering why there is anonymous viewers?

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