Think your Reddit account is anonymous?

Someone on r/privacy just discovered that a person found their anonymous Reddit (allegedly with no shared usernames, no personal details posted) just by Googling their real name.

Likely culprit:

data brokers that cross-reference leaked databases, email registrations, and metadata to connect real identities to pseudonymous accounts. Then they sell that map to anyone who wants it.

Always good to remember that you’re probably not truly anonymous. You're just pseudonymous, and the gap between those two things is a data broker's entire business model.