The US recently started asking for a list of your social media posts and emails used before they will allow you to get a visa/green card. (unless you come in illegally ofc)
Its only a matter of time before third world countries copy this step => you will be at risk of Blasphemy laws/sorcery laws if your plane transits through Dubai/the Middle East…
Quite a dystopian future thanks to all the data collected by the “trust and safety” departments.
The Philippines just forced everyone to register their phone SIM cards in their name or they deactivated them. There are now no burner phones in that country.
They suffer from extreme poverty, but for God's sake, they had to fucking clamp down on that pressing anonymous phone problem.
What are they doing if you don't have an account? Would be a good idea to just have a dummy Facebook account or something where you post nothing, looks super normie etc.
I keep a cheap voip number for most sites. I'm not very integrated into big tech though. I was never a big user anyway, but I totally disconnected from all of them. Almost everything I've said controversial would be limited to here and I suppose a tiny bit on Reddit that's been nuked for almost 3 years now. I don't think Reddit was ever on my actual e-mail address. This site doesn't have my e-mail. They'd have to use my IP to match me up, which might work ok for a hostile takeover of the site and possibly my ISP or middle-men like Cloudflare.
Still, I'm not naive enough to think I'm not constantly tracked despite my measures. I just try to not be the easiest in an algorithm and keep from being a product to big tech as much as I can. If the government wants to get me, well my name is kinda unique and it's not like they can't just look up my address in some tax records. It's not going to take much. I tried to tell some January 6 people that was a trap for the very same reasons. If you're going for something like that, either have to win or have an incredibly solid plan of ingress/egress that involves leaving cell phones behind, not flying to DC, not renting a car to drive there, perhaps not using your own car, measures to evade surveillance. Even then, you're likely to fail at it.
They have that monster data center in the desert out in Utah. Supposedly it has the capacity to back up the entire internet at set intervals. So they can rewind the whole thing and see what was posted at a certain date even if it was later deleted.
They have gotten worse at that, sure. Still helps me a ton. I also use for many of the two-factor authentication things that don't seem to care. If they want my actual cell I decide if it's worth it or not. Often that leans it to not.
Unless you buy that burner in cash from the next town over, private party, without sending an email or making a call to the seller, it's a false sense of protection. Even then, could be a fed handing out pre-flagged IMEIs.
Not trying to scare anyone, but if you want to play the normie social media game, be aware that this alone will not protect you.
Also be careful WHERE you use the burner. If you use it around your location it's pretty much a dead giveaway. They can triangulate your location at a couple meters, if the phone only turns on where you live it'll just point to you. General advice: don't use social media with phone number verification.
You can keep a cheap prepaid number active for like $100/year if you need consistent access to it, and there are websites where you can buy one time SMS verifications for almost any website for no more than $1.
The US recently started asking for a list of your social media posts and emails used before they will allow you to get a visa/green card. (unless you come in illegally ofc)
Its only a matter of time before third world countries copy this step => you will be at risk of Blasphemy laws/sorcery laws if your plane transits through Dubai/the Middle East…
Quite a dystopian future thanks to all the data collected by the “trust and safety” departments.
You have clearly never been to Russia. They are still arresting people for saying "war" instead of "special military operation".
I'm not sure where "here" is, but it's about 90% chance the prisons are better than the Russian ones.
At least in the West you can claim to be a woman and go to the cushy women's prison!
Certainly true for political prisoners, but as an average Joe you don't want to be in Russia.
Tommy really should come out as trans.
Russia? Try fucking Afghanistan.
The Philippines just forced everyone to register their phone SIM cards in their name or they deactivated them. There are now no burner phones in that country.
They suffer from extreme poverty, but for God's sake, they had to fucking clamp down on that pressing anonymous phone problem.
Germany has this since 2017 or so. At least you can get burner-SIMs through other EU-countries (roaming inside the EU is relatively cheap)
Ha if only it were that logical
I think we will be looking at this being leveled for accessing (not liking not sharing) the wrong articles or websites
What are they doing if you don't have an account? Would be a good idea to just have a dummy Facebook account or something where you post nothing, looks super normie etc.
I keep a cheap voip number for most sites. I'm not very integrated into big tech though. I was never a big user anyway, but I totally disconnected from all of them. Almost everything I've said controversial would be limited to here and I suppose a tiny bit on Reddit that's been nuked for almost 3 years now. I don't think Reddit was ever on my actual e-mail address. This site doesn't have my e-mail. They'd have to use my IP to match me up, which might work ok for a hostile takeover of the site and possibly my ISP or middle-men like Cloudflare.
Still, I'm not naive enough to think I'm not constantly tracked despite my measures. I just try to not be the easiest in an algorithm and keep from being a product to big tech as much as I can. If the government wants to get me, well my name is kinda unique and it's not like they can't just look up my address in some tax records. It's not going to take much. I tried to tell some January 6 people that was a trap for the very same reasons. If you're going for something like that, either have to win or have an incredibly solid plan of ingress/egress that involves leaving cell phones behind, not flying to DC, not renting a car to drive there, perhaps not using your own car, measures to evade surveillance. Even then, you're likely to fail at it.
The US government is unbelievably good at surveillance when they want to be, they just choose not to target retail theft rings or antifa cells.
They have that monster data center in the desert out in Utah. Supposedly it has the capacity to back up the entire internet at set intervals. So they can rewind the whole thing and see what was posted at a certain date even if it was later deleted.
SNDL (Store Now - Decrypt Later). Would not be surprised if the US has more Data centers like that.
They have gotten worse at that, sure. Still helps me a ton. I also use for many of the two-factor authentication things that don't seem to care. If they want my actual cell I decide if it's worth it or not. Often that leans it to not.
Unless you buy that burner in cash from the next town over, private party, without sending an email or making a call to the seller, it's a false sense of protection. Even then, could be a fed handing out pre-flagged IMEIs.
Not trying to scare anyone, but if you want to play the normie social media game, be aware that this alone will not protect you.
Also be careful WHERE you use the burner. If you use it around your location it's pretty much a dead giveaway. They can triangulate your location at a couple meters, if the phone only turns on where you live it'll just point to you. General advice: don't use social media with phone number verification.
The Facebook culture shift of hyper-exposure on the internet was a cynical ploy to extract data from consumers but it resulted in something far worse.
But with AI on the horizon, verified identities might be the only thing preventing things from escalating.
The creepfest is just going to get worse, either way.
You can keep a cheap prepaid number active for like $100/year if you need consistent access to it, and there are websites where you can buy one time SMS verifications for almost any website for no more than $1.
It's never one time. Log in from a different IP and they'll harass you until the end of times about it.
No one told me I would never be able to change my Gmail account name. Gonna need that burner
Why are you using Gmail though? I would advice against using Google where ever possible.