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I guess you want to pick names that have lots of false positives when searching

I think that's right. I got my first modem in 1985 and been on the Internet since the start of the 90s. I never re-use user names between sites, frequently delete my accounts and start with fresh ones.

I've started recently using random word generators to generate common words to use as usernames.



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