I have submitted several papers for double-blind peer review. (I work in the systems side of computer science.) My rule is that I will not weaken a paper throug

I have submitted several papers for double-blind peer review. (I work in the systems side of computer science.) My rule is that I will not weaken a paper through the double-blind process - that is, even if saying this paper builds on prior work may give enough information to out me or my co-authors, I still do it. I still say what system we used, and say it builds on previous work, but I pretend that that work was done by someone else. In practice, someone who really wants to break the double-blind veil probably can. But I don't think that's a problem, as very few people are consciously biased, and will actively seek out such identifying information. By removing names and affiliations, and pretending all of our work was done by someone else, I think that's enough to help people avoid unconscious bias.