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		Sophira on Feb 11, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Privacy preserving attribution for advertising My guess is that this is because it was publicly editable and was being vandalised, according to this comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30306105 Feels like it would have been better for them to make it view-only/editable by specific people rather than hiding the entire thing, but there you go.

jevoten on Feb 11, 2022 [–]

I'm sure they had practical reasons, but the point is that privacy wasn't even considered.

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