On 4 May 2017 22:33:47 IST, Frederik Ramm <frede...@remote.org> wrote:
>It doesn't matter that anyone can sign up and then view that data; we
>can at least make people promise to only use the data for project
>internal use when they sign up.


While I'm not looking forward to having to login to use various tools, I 
understand that it might be a step in the right direction for privacy-sensitive 
contributors.

But seeing how low this new barrier is, I don't think that we should advertise 
it as a privacy-preserving feature, because it'll give a false sense of 
security to the very users we are trying to help.

It's also annoying that it migh increase "contribution-less account bloat", but 
that's something we have to live with anyway.

I'd be more interested in annonymising features like a "randomize changeset and 
gpx timestamps a bit" account setting and providing a best-effort "delete my 
account and as much data as you can" button. These are more invasive and 
complicated than "login to see usernames" but they would be much more useful.

-- 
Vdp
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