Ooof, yeah. I was trying to make a new, purely anonymized identity. Went through an anonymized bitcoin VPN with TOR on top. Registered an email through Protonmail.
Pretty much no social media platform will accept Protonmail as an address without also having a phone number.
Got banned from Discord within 3 hours, literally all I'd done was send three friend requests and join one discord. My IP was rotating and I then needed to have 2-factor authentication (and protonmail wasn't allowed, I needed that phone number).
So, I went out and bought a burner phone, cash, with a 1-year prepaid account. Got it setup over a wired proxy with all radios turned off. Now at least I had a Google account! (they also require a phone number)
And Discord proceeded to reject it, because I needed to have a 'real' phone number from a major carrier.
I essentially needed to craft an entirely new identity if I wanted to be truly anonymous. It was eye-opening how invasive and pervasive the 'track you down to a real identity' accounts have become.
Pretty much no social media platform will accept Protonmail as an address without also having a phone number.
Got banned from Discord within 3 hours, literally all I'd done was send three friend requests and join one discord. My IP was rotating and I then needed to have 2-factor authentication (and protonmail wasn't allowed, I needed that phone number).
So, I went out and bought a burner phone, cash, with a 1-year prepaid account. Got it setup over a wired proxy with all radios turned off. Now at least I had a Google account! (they also require a phone number)
And Discord proceeded to reject it, because I needed to have a 'real' phone number from a major carrier.
I essentially needed to craft an entirely new identity if I wanted to be truly anonymous. It was eye-opening how invasive and pervasive the 'track you down to a real identity' accounts have become.