Most 3rd party client implementations I’ve seen use the “justinfan” trick to connect to IRC anonymously as well as supporting logged in users.
I’d like to use EventSub for my chat client as it seems much easier to deal with on the client side but not supporting anonymous users like IRC does could be a showstopper.
To access the API at all requires an access token so to make any API calls you will need to authenticate the user to read chat as and/or read the API as
What is the use case to require to connect to chat without identificiation?