# 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:** [April 14, 2016, 12:12pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/usernames-in-shared-links-break-anonymity/42554 "2016-04-14T12:12:21Z") **Posts on this page:** 1 **Showing post:** 22
### Author: ![Canapin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/canapin/32/119591_2.png) [@Canapin](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Canapin) #### Post date: [May 28, 2023, 9:22am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/usernames-in-shared-links-break-anonymity/42554/22 "2023-05-28T09:22:04Z")
> [@Moin](#): > > This is not a pretty onebox Indeed, and this is weird. Might be worth a #Contribute > UX topic… * * * There’s also now an official theme component that strips the username out from the share link. > [@Share Link Shortener](https://meta.discourse.org/t/share-link-shortener/251965): > > discourse2Summary Share Link Shortener adds a checkbox in the share link modal that replaces the share link with a shorter version containing only the IDs of the topic and post.eyeglassesPreview [Preview on Discourse Theme Creator](https://discourse.theme-creator.io/theme/Discourse/share-link-shortener)hammer_and_wrenchRepository [https://github.com/discourse/discourse-share-link-shortener/](https://github.com/discourse/discourse-share-link-shortener/)open_bookNew to Discourse Themes? [Beginner’s guide to using Discourse Themes](https://meta.discourse.org/t/beginners-guide-to-using-discourse-themes/91966) Install this theme component Features This theme component is e… The setting is remembered client-side by default as well. There are now two official ways to circumvent sharing the username additionally to manually removing the username, so I consider the issue addressed and close the topic 🙂 --- _[View the full topic](https://meta.discourse.org/t/usernames-in-shared-links-break-anonymity/42554)._