Privacy Concerns with Discourse and Techlore's Forum

I wanted to bring attention to the misleading (disinformation?) idea that forums like Techlore and Privacy Guides are completely privacy-friendly for users.

#techlore #privacyguides #privacy #forums
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Sources:

"Moderators, trust level, and seeing IP addresses"
https://meta.discourse.org/t/moderators-trust-level-and-seeing-ip-addresses/52244

"Is it possible to prevent moderators to see ip’s and emails?"
https://meta.discourse.org/t/is-it-possible-to-prevent-moderators-to-see-ips-and-emails/56336

"Understanding Discourse Trust Levels"
https://blog.discourse.org/2018/06/understanding-discourse-trust-levels/

"A way to detect VPNs"
https://meta.discourse.org/t/a-way-to-detect-vpns/183231

"Discourse, Cloudflare and IP Bans"
https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-cloudflare-and-ip-bans/88956

"User self-anonymization"
https://meta.discourse.org/t/user-self-anonymization/88587

"Users self-deleting/anonymizing?"
https://meta.discourse.org/t/users-self-deleting-anonymizing/267657/1

"Why is there no option to delete your forum account?"
https://discuss.techlore.tech/t/why-is-there-no-option-to-delete-your-forum-account/1798

"GitHub - discourse/discourse: A platform for community discussion. Free, open, simple."
https://github.com/discourse/discourse

"What is Doxing – Definition and Explanation"
https://www.kaspersky.co.uk/resource-center/definitions/what-is-doxing

"What is Doxing?"
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365-life-hacks/privacy-and-safety/what-is-doxing

"The Satisfying Downfall of SSSniperWolf"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U7YtrRRccC0