# What do we mean by 'anonymous'?

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**Category:** UX\
**Created:** [January 23, 2019, 10:10am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/what-do-we-mean-by-anonymous/107262 "2019-01-23T10:10:06Z")\
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**Author:** ![codinghorror](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/codinghorror/32/110067_2.png) [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)\
**Post date:** [January 24, 2019, 12:46am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/what-do-we-mean-by-anonymous/107262/5 "2019-01-24T00:46:19Z")

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That’s a good point so then technically we have

- anonymous _mode_ – always those two words together, and remember this is a rare mode that must be expicitly enabled, is _default off_, and that mode to be explicitly entered and exited by an already logged in user with a valid account.

- anonymized – as in “that user was anonymized”

- anonymous – as in “this is an anonymous browser visit”

That seems pretty clear to me @rizka, not sure much else is needed here.

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