Ask HN: Please give us an option to hide our username in the upper right corner I'm often around others (bus, work, standing in line on my phone) and I don't want people to know my HN username. Many sites display the username in the upper right corner and it seems it's a privacy issue. Can we have an option to turn it off or just remove it completely? In general I wish it would become a trend to stop displaying usernames at the to of sites. Reddit for example does this and I wish they didn't. |
If you install this script in the Tampermonkey extension for Firefox/Chrome, it will automatically hide your username and your score on all HN pages.
https://gist.github.com/scpedicini/43f95d5e00af49110c41754ea...
I have shown "wrong" things, like a password, a few times too many, even before streaming was a thing.
So I'd recommend a different approach, like getting a privacy screen guard so the screen can only be viewed from a limited angle. Or get a pair of AR/XR glasses so only you can see the content and you can keep your device's screen off.
Nearly every website puts the username in the top corner. A screen protector seems more pragmatic than trying to petition every website to change well established conventions that millions (or billions) of users are already familiar with.
That way you'd have to scroll to the very bottom before it appears.