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rojiro
Ugh, i have been setting up a new pseudonym recently (this one, rojiro), with plans to move my online identity to almost exclusively this, but it's been hurdle after hurdle. The digital survellience that has been setup on the internet is truly frightening. My twitter account was deactivated and i hadn't even posted anything yet. I also can't seem to activate a google voice number.
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rojiro
having an actual phone number purchased in meatspace seems to be a requirement to participate in the modern internet. crazy stuff
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hyc
get a prepaid SIM card?
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hyc
a lot of shops around here sell them for cash
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hyc
usually you can get them in airport shops too
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rojiro
hyc: yes, i'll need to do that. Sort of exposes my city of residence though
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hyc
how about looking for a VOIP provider who does SMS too?
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rojiro
also i presume that i'll need to actually activate the phone number using a cell tower, which pretty much gives up your physcial location at a specific time / place.
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rojiro
hyc: i have 5 voip numbers now in different countries they all do sms and each of them have been flagged in some way
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sech1
don't use twitter then
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rojiro
i finally got a google account verified, but can't seem to get a google voice number, which would be pretty nice, since i think most everyone accepts that number now.
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rojiro
sech1: i want to participate in twitter. it's a great place to network with people, although it's probably not worth investing in since they can just cut me off at any moment
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rojiro
has anyone here built either telegram or signal from source and then used them successfully?
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rojiro
hyc: when i say the numbers are flagged, i mean that services don't accept the numbers or pretend to accept them (in the case of google) and then it just doesn't work. All in all it's been very eye openeing trying to come from tails with a bit of monero and setup an online identity without hitting clearnet
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needmoney90
Did you access the account setups over tor?
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needmoney90
Thats usually one of the bigger false positives for /r/monero, among other things
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rojiro
needmoney90: yes, perhaps that was my big mistake i did access both google and twitter via tor exit nodes, i perhaps will have to make a new twitter account through non-exit node IP
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needmoney90
It is quite possible it wasnt the phone number that did it then
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needmoney90
just my opinion though :)
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rojiro
needmoney90: no, that's good feedback actually.
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selsta
fwiw twitter locks account even from clean IP addresses
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selsta
accounts*
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dsc_
honestly it's sad the internet is almost unusable via Tor
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dsc_
due to Google Captcha
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rojiro
dsc_: it really is sad actually, i think that I got pretty bummed out this last week trying to work through all of this.
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dsc_
God knows how many times I have needed to identify busses, bicycles, house numbers, traffic lights
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dsc_
I never go outside, like I know how these things look like =D
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rojiro
haha
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asymptotically
dsc_: and buttflare
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midipoet
I think the world is full tin-pot crazy
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midipoet
it's absolutely fucked