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> The way we’ve chosen to anonymize the data is by generating HMAC

You can also truncate the hash after the HMAC to mix the data of different users. It still would be useful for aggregate analytics, abuse protection, rate limiting, etc, but if each user shares an identifier with many others it would be harder to unmask them and make correlations.




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