I think you're being a bit too flippant here.
Everything you do with a 'fake' identity ... you do with
real devices from
real places with the appendages of your real person. There is absolutely
nothing fake about the data being logged. That's all you.
What your screen name is, is irrelevant.
It isn't about someone appropriating your account in order to profit from your reputation. It's about collating the data. That one particular real person which Google knows about and Facebook knows about (they tend to know about you even if you have no account with them) happens to be some particular account on cruxforums.
If someone database registers that, it isn't going to be harvested by a conspiracy to appropriate your cruxforums likes.
It is going to be a piece of information along with similar information about many other users, that will be sold off to any bidder who thinks they may be able to use it for whatever kind of leverage. (Not all of the buyers are going to be named Igor or Vladimir).
Perhaps this is more understandable to younger people. All this data can be collated, are we to trust not only the currently existing corporations and governments but also all the future ones a generation on to never use this?
One reason Wikipedia is using https even for just browsing its pages (not only for editing) is that they understand, if for instance someone collates all the data about people who suddenly become interested in any type of disease and its treatment, well that increases the likelihood they may have been diagnosed for it, and when you consider the amount of people accessing Wikipedia that would be a huge dataset that could be sold off for great profit and terrible consequence. Also, especially with cellphones, it just really isn't that hard to collate data with devices with locations with behaviors. They know your sleep and work patterns. (Think of it, it's trivial). Oh yeah add to that Google buying up health records and Fitbit.
It's basically the question,
A) you want to trust ALL corporations and powerful governments not only for now but far into the future to never ever do something dodgy.(Remember how "Don't be evil" used to be Google slogan ... until they removed it... )
b) for FREE you can reduce the possible impact significantly.
It might not be about you but for instance about some, out of thousands, who might get their career shot down (2044 Progressive hopeful resigns from presidential race because of allegation of 'internalized misogyny' raised from Russian leaks of packet sniffing way back from the Roaring Twenties when they were a member of some weird forum), or their lives upended in a different regime.
Having https on a site like this would not negatively impact your ability to write stories and accumulate likes in any way.
Assuming it can be implemented in the same way as elsewhere - for free from Let's Encrypt - it also doesn't increase the costs of running the forum in such a way that they'd have to switch to a paid subscription model or anything.
So what's the damage done?
Why not improve security?
People who are serious about this, and working for non profits, have come to the conclusion that we should just phase out unencrypted http
completely and use https
everywhere ... about five years ago.
https://blog.mozilla.org/security/files/2015/05/HTTPS-FAQ.pdf -- everything described there has gotten much easier and better by orders of magnitude in the last 5 years... for instance if you use Plesk it's just literally 'mash that button and follow the instructions'.
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I don't see why it's necessary to dig in the heels and resist a more secure web for everyone.
If the technical protocols for the web had been designed for encryption from the ground up you wouldn't argue to switch to insecure would you?
When someone who manages a server logs on to do the nitty gritty work, they'll use something called SSH, which is always encrypted, and nobody is saying,
can I please have an insecure way to manage my server.
Is it just ingrained that security is bad? It's only for tinfoil hat people like Edward Snowden and Julian Assange and you don't want to end up like that?
Because we should be
good subjects who
have nothing to hide?
Because
The Government needs to catch The Terrorists so The People shall sleep peacefully? (yes terrorists are in fact a very real issue but they are a focused problem which is best addressed by targeted intervention).