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GDPR: The feature to pseudo-anonymise User ID is actually "replacing the User ID with a pseudonym" #12836

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Recently we added a feature called Anonymise User ID which is actually only Pseudo-anonymise User ID the user id by doing a SHA1 + Salt. So we should rename the feature to "Pseudo-anonymise" to not be misleading.

You can see it here: https://media.githubusercontent.com/media/matomo-org/matomo/3.x-dev/plugins/PrivacyManager/tests/UI/expected-screenshots/PrivacyManager_privacy_settings_default.png

Note: the IP Address is properly anonymised (since we remove information and truncate the last bytes). Similarly the Ecommerce Order ID is also properly anonymised since there is random number in the value being hashed.

Follows up #12558 #12641

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