While reviewing the "Anonymous Private URL" feature (#1724), members of the Harvard Dataverse Repository curation team saw that some researchers were unsure of the difference between the "Private URL" and the "Anonymous Private URL". In particular, one or more researchers weren't sure if the feature would let them share an anonymized version of the data in a dataset's data files.

The feature only removes from the page dataset metadata that the repository administrators have decided could reveal the dataset author's identity. The User Guides mention this (item 4), and the popup includes a link that points to that section of the User Guides.

But it's unclear if most users will click on that link or if that User Guide section makes the purpose of the Anonymous Private URL clear enough.