The difference is that now, there are ways to identify people by their email addresses (via the address book upload), and Etsy asks for and displays people's real names. Neither of these were the case before a couple of months ago.
They let you enter your full name easily, but don't let you change it very easily. You have to ask customer service.
Privacy changes on Etsy aren't communicated very well, in my experience. They very rarely communicate changes to all members via email - hence, like the article says, if something changes and you don't visit the site frequently, you will never know. Some features start as opt-in, turn to opt-out, then change to not-opt-outable, and so on.
They let you enter your full name easily, but don't let you change it very easily. You have to ask customer service.
Privacy changes on Etsy aren't communicated very well, in my experience. They very rarely communicate changes to all members via email - hence, like the article says, if something changes and you don't visit the site frequently, you will never know. Some features start as opt-in, turn to opt-out, then change to not-opt-outable, and so on.