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And if a crash report for Firefox/Iceweasel/Chromium/Brave is sent, that contains a memory dump including your username?

Seems like enough to make the connection, if someone got ahold of all the data.

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The wrote in the mail that crash reports are anonymised.

They may well be, the issue is something called re-identification. Even with anonymised data, even when using differential privacy, re-identification can be possible if you're not very careful. The more data you have, the more likely re-identification is.

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