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Re:Private by Design: How We Built Firefox Sync on Wednesday November 14, 2018 @12:39AM (#18447766)
I'm not sure account age is so relevant. I create new accounts all the time (several times per month) even though I stand behind what I write. It takes 15 seconds so hardly a big effort. I've noticed that it's possible to extract a lot of info from people's posts, in many cases deanonymizing them if you go through enough history and correlate with other sites. Maybe he is a bit privacy concerned.
It's weird. I use Windows 10 all the time both at work and in office and I never see these ads. I'm in Sweden, maybe it's not targeted somehow.