I don’t really use them, lately I thought if I want my voice/influence to be heard on a wider audience, I need to join the corporate social media platforms first.
my strategy is to slowly convert my followers to follow me on pleroma/mastodon by telling them if they want to see more/relevant posts, go to my fediverse account.
Instagram isn’t necessary but twitter and youtube is. I haven’t found a way to make an account privately. does anyone have any ideas? it would be really helpful
so the things I need
- a vpn for twitter since it doesn’t work on tor
- a phone number
edit; I tried 1984 and it asked for personal info for the domain. use njal.la instead.
It might be virtually impossible to create a private google account on any device which you use for browsing the web, as they have a million ways of fingerprinting via things like invisible captcha, but knowing they know who you are doesn’t necessarily detract from having privacy from other people and organisations.
so, using TOR and a my own hosted vpn wouldn’t work you say?
In terms of using Tor to mask your identity from global surveillance companies “god eyes” (I include Alphabet in that category) I’m skeptical, especially when dealing in large files like video.
Tor’s weakness to traffic analysis attacks is well-known. The original design documents highlight the system’s vulnerability to a “global passive adversary” that can see all the traffic both entering and leaving the Tor network. Such an adversary could correlate that traffic and de-anonymise every user.
https://www.hackerfactor.com/blog/index.php?/archives/896-Tor-0day-Finding-IP-Addresses.html
But for one off projects they might not bother due to cost.
Creating a phone verified Google/Gmail might help. https://5sim.net is your friend there. They also do Twitter activation too. it’s all quite cheap :)
Really nice piece of service, never heard of it before
Again I should note not my service, I just have paid coins to them and it all works.
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can I use monero to use this service? it says that you only use it for 15 minutes… so then I don’t keep the phone number, this might be a problem if I can’t use that same number in the future.
No, but you could convert your XMR to Bitcoin or Litecoin using something like https://xmr.is :)
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thanks for the idea, now I don’t have to use my brain that much. https://freeje.com/ this is better since we can rent the phone numbers instead of it being disposable
edit; oh and monero works
Psst for installing the vpn on your own server/vps: https://github.com/angristan/wireguard-install
arigato
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Container feature is included in firefox, by the way.
I am planning on posting stuff of course, I wouldn’t be asking this if I didn’t want to do that ::)) annoyingly they keep asking me for a phone number (twitter also does it too if the bots thinks you’re suspicious) which I don’t wanna use. and then I can’t create/use the account if I don’t give that up.
yeah, twitter blocks TOR so I probably have to host a vpn
Your best bet is using the Tor Browser.
- The Tor network effectively hides your IP from these services.
- The Tor browser works hard to reduce fingerprinting options.
- Blocking some trackers can also reduce the chance that one of them manages to identify you.
But remember, you need to use the Tor Browser every time you log in. A single time that you login from your own IP and they will associate that IP with your account.
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