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Re:Be careful what you copy: Invisibly inserting usernames i... by amelius on Wednesday April 04, 2018 @07:24AM (#16753726)
> on a forum, if the post reads slightly different to each user, and one user “quotes” it, the quote will be of what that user saw, and other users will be able to identify the fingerprint from the quote.

Not if the forum intelligently changes the quoted text :)

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Re:Be careful what you copy: Invisibly inserting usernames i... by gruez on Wednesday April 04, 2018 @12:42PM (#16756452)
how do you handle partial quotes? what about broken quotes?
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