Add-on Show posts as anonymous to anonymous viewers (privacy / security)

[Merri]

The internet has changed quite a bit in the past few years in that we now have a ton of AI crawlers in the scene. And as more and more sites block these crawlers these crawlers are becoming increasingly stealthy.

The core problem with AI tools on forums is that they can be used to gather personal information from public sources, essentially allowing to spy on people with minimal effort. I find this a severe issue that should be paid attention to.

For this reason I would like to see an add-on to allow all posts be shown as anonymous on given conditions:

1. When a post becomes old enough it should be shown as anonymous when viewing it publicly.
2. Have a sane default like 1 year. This would retain some readability on recent posts.
3. Allow users to customize how soon their posts become anonymous for public viewers. (For example: never, 1 week, 1 month, 3 months, 6 months, 1 year, 2 years)
4. Allow users to redact their post content from public viewers entirely on a per post basis.
5. There should be a message to let users know that they must register to see who have written the posts they see to be anonymous.

These changes would allow us to maintain public posts for discoverability while making it harder to track individuals by crawling the whole web as an AI teaching material.

As final note, I would be able to do this myself, but I'm not willing to do it for free as this topic does not spark joy in me. Also, it might make much more sense to have this as a core forum feature rather than as an add-on.

Edit! It is possible I posted this message to a wrong place but we'll see.