# How private are anonymous posts?

**URL:** <https://discuss.write.as/t/how-private-are-anonymous-posts/15012>\
**Category:** General\
**Created:** [January 24, 2025, 10:20pm UTC](https://discuss.write.as/t/how-private-are-anonymous-posts/15012 "2025-01-24T22:20:10Z")\
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**Author:** ![markwyner](https://discuss.write.as/user_avatar/discuss.write.as/markwyner/32/4193_2.png) [@markwyner](https://discuss.write.as/u/markwyner)\
**Post date:** [January 24, 2025, 10:20pm UTC](https://discuss.write.as/t/how-private-are-anonymous-posts/15012/1 "2025-01-24T22:20:10Z")

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Does anyone know how anonymous the anonymous posts are? Meaning, if I publish one while logged into my account, it’s bound to my account with data on the server.

Unless @matt is bullied by a cop or a fascist dictator, I assume those posts are truly anonymous and not traceable to our account.

True?

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**Author:** ![davepolaschek](https://discuss.write.as/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/d/51bf81/32.png) [@davepolaschek](https://discuss.write.as/u/davepolaschek)\
**Post date:** [January 25, 2025, 1:05pm UTC](https://discuss.write.as/t/how-private-are-anonymous-posts/15012/2 "2025-01-25T13:05:32Z")

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From the section on [anonymous posts](https://howto.write.as/anonymous-posts):

> Write.as only links anonymous back to you when you’re logged in. That way you can keep track of your published anonymous posts on your [Posts page](https://write.as/me/posts). When you’re logged out, however, Write.as doesn’t know about all of the anonymous posts you wrote, since they’re not connected to a single account. This gives you the best privacy on the platform, at the expense of a little convenience.

So if you’re logged in, they are connected to you. Exactly how that works, I’m not sure, though. Almost certainly a @matt answer is needed, though maybe a guy could poke through the sources…