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I disagree. That kind of anonymity is a false sense of security. Crazy people who are going to knock on your door are going to find you.

I’ve had my street address on my domains for two decades now. All it does is save would be crazy people 10 minutes of googling, as there are searchable public records of home ownership.

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I think you're overestimating how much effort the average adversary will put in to find this information. Sure, some will hunt you down and try and find you via real life databases like home ownership records. But many will just hope they can take advantage of easily found information like WHOIS records, in the same way many burglars just hope a doors been left unlocked or a window left open.

Unless someone's gotten into a fight with 4chan or Kiwi Farms, the chances of someone actually hunting them down like an internet detective is pretty slim.

Showing up at somebody’s front door is a big line to cross.

Like dumping a toilet in a driveway because some database pointed you there?

https://splinternews.com/how-an-internet-mapping-glitch-turn...

Not only that, there's also swatting.

The problem with swatting is not that you can find people’s home address. It’s that with an anonymous phone call you can send hyped up untrained dangerous fake army men to someones house with no repercussions for you or the team.

Hiding your home address is just a workaround.

What's your home address?

You can find it in the Whois information for my domain

That's too much effort. I guess your workaround worked after all.

There is a difference between not connecting this account to my real life identity and keeping my address a secret. If you knew my name you can just look up my phone number and address in the public phone book.

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