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"We removed users’ names to protect the innocent. Instead, we’re showing random fruit names prepended to the real users’ ids."

Can't someone just go lookup the IDs to get real names?




Yeah... but the purpose of the post is to explain the methodology not to point fingers. We kept the IDs because they are useful to demonstrate whether users created those accounts consecutively. Product Hunt's public API can be used to find the real names and even expand this method further.




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