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[โ€“] Infamousblt@hexbear.net 1 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

The government has your data. Like it or not, they do. So the government gives each citizen a token that is anonymous but unique. Like, just a long string of numbers.

Congratulations you just invented the social security number

[โ€“] DasRav@hexbear.net 1 points 2 hours ago

The point of not giving the website your SSN, obviously, is that that identifies you. A random number (that could be generated per request as well, I did not write that but obviously it could) would not share your identity.