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Originally Posted by CRUDEFINDER
What I hope will eventually happen is that sites will allow you to change your name often enough that these tracking programs cant keep a data base on you. These programs need a pretty good sample size to accurately pin you down. It's like Phil Laak wearing his disguise to a poker tournament.
Cake has done a few things along these lines. First, they let you change your name every 7 days. Second, they don't allow HUDs. Third, they munge everyone's names in the hand histories so that only the first 4 characters are shown, with the rest of the name showing up as asterisks. Your own name shows up fine, which means that you won't have any problems building a database on your own play but you'll have a hell of a time trying to separate out all the John********'s in your database.
Personally, I like what they do. I mostly use PT to track my own play, anyway, and I've found that I don't really miss having other people's stats at Cake. I'd like to see other sites allow name changes as well.