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Small-Scale Question Sunday for July 23, 2023

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i could use some guidance

how do i create fake or alternative social media accounts. Like instagram, tiktok, etc... whenever i try to signup up they want you to have an email or phone number, but when i need to make email accounts i need to have phone numbers, so i just cant.

opsec threat model: i just don't want to be embarrassed by some of the things i like. Also probably like a lot of people here i have friends who are different "clique" and will absolutely hate each other and i want all my friends even if i know they wont get along.

i don't want to give my real credit card info to some risky website. in an ideal world i would by a prepaid card (USA) and get an a phone number for a short time to make email and social accounts.

thank you for your help.

There is some Russian website that you a cat cryptocurrency to for activating accounts with phone numbers, smsvna, smnva something something, it worked for me. They hand you a number for a service, you give that service the number during registration, they have a timeout window during which they will processs that registration for you, giving you the code or whatever.

Other than that, yes a burner phone is fine.

The "majors" - Google, Microsoft, Yahoo, etc - have gotten much harder to reliably make an email account on without a real phone number or other email. You can avoid this by going with second-tier providers, like Protonmail, Fastmail, etc. You may have to pay a small amount for it, but it's probably worth it. Not sure about phones - you can get a cheap temporary phone number with various apps, but IME they're usually filtered for all of the usual services that use phone number verification, and it might be necessary to buy an additional actual real phone to do it. Probably better to avoid if you can. You can handle payments by buying prepaid credit cards, with cash if you're particularly paranoid.

You can make a dummy Gmail account easily enough, you don't need to provide a phone number.

EDIT: It appears that the phone number is a requirement in the US, but not in most countries. Maybe use something like the Veepn Chrome extension to spoof yourself in the UK and then set it up.

Proton mail is also easy

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