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Wikipedia adds the temporary accounts feature in response to the Heritage Foundation’s threats to dox their editors (lemmy.ca)
submitted 2 days ago by Sunshine@lemmy.ca to c/privacy@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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[–] kautau@lemmy.world 8 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)
  1. Wikipedia shows IPs instead of usernames for anonymous edits, which the heritage foundation can see. Wikipedia now automatically creates “temporary accounts” for anonymous edits instead of showing the IP
  2. Wikipedia blocks most VPN edits because they cull malicious edits by IP, so while possible, it’s difficult to make an edit from a VPN since the IP is likely shared with bad actors
  3. See above. In an effort to limit malicious or nonhelpful edits, anonymous edits are shown by IP in the edit history, though this now stops that
[–] Sunshine@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 day ago

TIL that anonymous edits show your ip address.

We must all do this anonymously editing in coffee shops and libraries.