>That's ridiculous. Unless you're also posting your address in the video description, it's practically impossible for a viewer to match a name (even your legal name) to your physical location.
Clearly you have not spent enough time on 4chan. Two instances off the top of my head:
1. Youtuber posts video of his room where he is being mean to his cat. Within 24 hours police are knocking on his door and making an arrest on account of cruelty to animals. 4chan got all his info from something as bening as a webcam's view of a teenager's room.
2. Girl throws puppies into river in bosnia. 48 hours later, police is knocking on her door on account of animal cruelty charges. 4chan had nothing to go on but a video of some average-looking wilderness.
Also a famous case of a few lads throwing a puppy off a bridge.
Now imagine how quickly all of those stories woudl unfold with a name attached! Unimaginably quickly.
Remember, 4chan is the kind of "guy" who tracked down Boxxy and harassed her so much she practically hid from the internet for ~4 years. All from videos of nothing but a face with a black background. They found her home address, her phone number, the school she goes to. Everything.
4chan is scary. I do not want my name on the internet publicly anywhere. Anywhere.
> Clearly you have not spent enough time on 4chan.
What's fun is that, thanks to the fact that 4chan happily embeds the Analytics/Recaptcha combo, Google may already know your creepiest fetish (along with your real name) in an instant. They can know what you say in 4chan by matching timestamps.
Unless, of course, you are a so called "nerd" and you stay behind 7 proxies and have a clean, incognito browser. dredmorbius' mention of http://33bits.org/about/ definitely applies here.
It's scary that having a name attached to other signals normally found in public profiles (schools, desires) will instantly yield an address for anyone determined enough.
It's scary that it became so ubiquitous. Sometimes, I really miss the old internet.
Not to be flip, and I'm a huge privacy guy, but all of that does matter less if you're not being mean to cats or throwing puppies off bridges. I imagine Google is cool with that. It's not like this is a free speech issue.
Clearly you have not spent enough time on 4chan. Two instances off the top of my head:
1. Youtuber posts video of his room where he is being mean to his cat. Within 24 hours police are knocking on his door and making an arrest on account of cruelty to animals. 4chan got all his info from something as bening as a webcam's view of a teenager's room.
2. Girl throws puppies into river in bosnia. 48 hours later, police is knocking on her door on account of animal cruelty charges. 4chan had nothing to go on but a video of some average-looking wilderness.
Also a famous case of a few lads throwing a puppy off a bridge.
Now imagine how quickly all of those stories woudl unfold with a name attached! Unimaginably quickly.
Remember, 4chan is the kind of "guy" who tracked down Boxxy and harassed her so much she practically hid from the internet for ~4 years. All from videos of nothing but a face with a black background. They found her home address, her phone number, the school she goes to. Everything.
4chan is scary. I do not want my name on the internet publicly anywhere. Anywhere.