• TheOubliette@lemmy.ml
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    3 hours ago

    I would recommend that anyone concerned with privacy either use a burner account or not answer these kinds of questions.

    While statistically I’m sure there are many straight men here, doxxing and other forms of identification are enabled by combining different breadcrumbs of information.

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        13 minutes ago

        Your question is for “straight males”, so those answering it are implicitly saying, " I am a straight male".

        This is a subset of the population, so if you wanted to identify a user here, this would be a ckue. It would be useless on its own, but I’d they share more clues over time, they may reveal themselves accidentally to someone trying to fix them. Examples:

        • The city or state they live in.

        • Their age range.

        • Their ethnic identity.

        Just that much info, which people will easily expose if they answer questions like this, could be enough to identify someone. There are only so many straight 23 year old dudes from Guam living in a particular suburb of Baltimore.