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== The Anonymous Commenter == | == The Anonymous Commenter == | ||
The anonymous commenter is a user who is posting relevant information to a blog post or news article. Those that truly require anonymity need it because they have inside or privileged information relevant to a story. | |||
Most likely, they spend the majority of their Internet usage logged into a number of services online that record various things about them, and may log them into arbitrary services automatically due to federated login systems such as OpenID, and have been exposed to a number of ad networks intent on tracking them. | Most likely, they spend the majority of their Internet usage logged into a number of services online that record various things about them, and may log them into arbitrary services automatically due to federated login systems such as OpenID, and have been exposed to a number of ad networks intent on tracking them. | ||
They use Anonymous Mode to ensure that the blog or news site (which may have numerous advertising partnerships) would have a very hard time correlating their comment to their normal browsing. | |||
They most likely use the mode from home, but may use public wifi or a proxy. | |||
=User Agent Considerations= | =User Agent Considerations= | ||