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Support => Feature requests => Topic started by: awhiteknight on August 26, 2013, 12:46 am

Title: Anonymize buyer statistics
Post by: awhiteknight on August 26, 2013, 12:46 am
Since the upgrades the site has started leaking new information, at the moment customers are uniquely identifiable across accounts by dealers. It's therefore quite possible for someone to know your address and your entire transaction history, assuming you always leave a review.

Something like the following hashes into a unique identifier with very little chance of collision:

spent   £7,268.90
orders   54
vendors   39
user age   8m 6d

I suggest moving to something with lots of collisions, increasing anonymity for everyone who falls into a given hash bucket:

spent   £5,000-10,000
orders   50-100
vendors   25-50
user age   6-12 months
Title: Re: Anonymize buyer statistics
Post by: crystal on August 26, 2013, 06:27 am
Yep, privacy wise this 'upgrade' is a disaster.

It might turn away privacy conscious users from posting a comment on what they bought...
Title: Re: Anonymize buyer statistics
Post by: ~o~WaterWalker~o~ on August 26, 2013, 07:54 am
The buyers guide has to be re-written now.. just two words needed 'fuck you'