# Usernames in shared links break anonymity

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/usernames-in-shared-links-break-anonymity/42554>\
**Category:** Feature\
**Tags:** privacy, completed\
**Created:** [2016 年4 月 14 日 12:12 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/usernames-in-shared-links-break-anonymity/42554 "2016-04-14T12:12:21Z")\
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作者： ![steko](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c77e96/32.png) [@steko](https://meta.discourse.org/u/steko)\
发布日期： [2016 年4 月 16 日 08:50 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/usernames-in-shared-links-break-anonymity/42554/15 "2016-04-16T08:50:37Z")

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> [@cpradio](#):
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> I know I occasionally remove it, but not due to privacy concerns, more so because I don’t want it to look like I am benefiting from posting the link.

Yesterday I came across Hashids: [http://hashids.org/](http://hashids.org/) and I thought replacing `?u=username` with the user\_id hashid could be a rather simple solution to this problem, for both privacy and social (“I don’t want to benefit from posting this link”) reasons.

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