Disable per user access/usage statistics

[Falco]

@Roland

i would expect/recommend some global admin option so that

You can disable the linked page (/u) using a site setting since 2015:

Is it a security violation to show a directory of users?

Here is the functionality that @codinghorror mentioned: https://github.com/discourse/discourse/commit/2cc585816369afd2f1b0266615d78282a0a99ad8 The new site setting is called enable_user_directory

@Roland

user profile information would be hidden with or without authentication

You can also disable profiles for anons using hide user profiles from public.