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I like the idea a lot but when I go to the demo profile, I can highlight the redacted text with my mouse and see the person's name. Is that intentional??

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If you hover your mouse over the name the title is "Give us some credit, we did think about this - this is a randomly generated name. Reload the page!"

I tried reloading and it was indeed a random name. Although, not sure why they did this, people could very easily be turned off from using this because they didn't see the hover text.

I agree, it's quirky but poor Columbus Torphy is probably getting called into his bosses office today ;)

It's a hangover from a previous iteration of the design - we were generating names with ffaker and then doing a strikethrough, but in reality it was confusing users rather than being a funny aesthetic touch.

In the interests of getting this thing shipped we decided to hide the text with CSS, but replacing it with an SVG is at the top of our priority list :)

Inspect element on it ;)

In the contact form the name is: Hidden McRedacted

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