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Rate-limiting ID acquiring and having them to be short-lived deals with malicious parties. Having for example a token that proofs that you're a legitimate person for 1 day, but your identity is tied to it for the duration means that you can only abuse the system only so for so long. For longer periods e.g. a month, half a year, you can provide pseudoanonymity, and it poses bigger issues with privacy, but a person who is willing to be subjected to be identified for a certain period of time gains certain privileges.
Sounds very dystopian though, but not having ID won't stop the tech giants from profiling you anyways.
Then it's not anonymous.
Hence the pseudoanonymity.
This doesn't disprove what I wrote, as it's not anonymous.
Pseudoanonymity is not anonymity, regardless of how any given person chooses to define that nebulous term.
My "pick two" stands.