What Github Exposes About You: Name, Location, and More
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The article discusses how GitHub can potentially expose user information, and the sole commenter shares their experience with removing sensitive data from GitHub.
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How is this information leakage worse than (say) Discord though?
General advice seems to be to use pseudonyms in general online. (Then you have the reverse problem of not getting attributed with your code.)