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Re:Blog Anonymously by netsharc on Friday July 10, 2020 @06:16AM (#23789916)
Ha, "Hey Google, NSA here, do you have the server logs of people translating this passage?"

Wait, why ask Google, they probably can just look in their own surveillance database.

Geez, if Google Translate queries are logged, that's... a lot of information.

Re:Blog Anonymously by zimpenfish on Friday July 10, 2020 @06:33AM (#23790007)
I guess you could skirt around this by using something to tag the various parts of speech in your original text (using something like Python's NLTK) and replace them with randomly picked synonyms from a thesaurus?

Pretty sure it would obscure the original writer although possibly at the cost of obscuring the original meaning.

Re:Blog Anonymously by KingOfCoders on Friday July 10, 2020 @06:33AM (#23790010)
If you use wordpress.com from Tor and use Google Translate from Tor, what do they learn more about you than just using wordpress.com?

(I have no clue)

Re:Blog Anonymously by trentdk on Friday July 10, 2020 @06:48AM (#23790119)
I think what we’re concluding here is that using Google to obscure the linguistic style is flawed, because a state actor could obtain the original linguistic style from Google records, or from their own records of snooped traffic.

In other words: the blog should find a way to obscure linguistic style offline.

Re:Blog Anonymously by teddyh on Friday July 10, 2020 @06:45AM (#23790101)
They can see the original text, which can the be analyzed.