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tefe - Group: Member - Total Posts: 5
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Posted on: 05/04/21 09:20PM

SadSap said:
This only feeds into my suspicions that services such as google and discord spy on their users and wants to personally identify everyone that uses their services.

Surveillance capitalism is one thing but also, 2-factor authentication is used as a thumb-print for your browsing activities. It helps the NSA and other "numbered eyes" spy agencies/countries tie your anonymous accounts together, and make you more identifiable. Anonymity is dying.



PietroSoft - Group: Member - Total Posts: 2500
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Posted on: 05/04/21 09:29PM

laura.loli is the pro on the privacy thing. I personally gave up on that regard. Think on what i told you, simply using a different sim for those kind of things. And when you finish the business get the sim out.



SadSap - Group: Member - Total Posts: 2749
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Posted on: 05/04/21 09:53PM

Sometimes I browse porn (only the vanilla stuff, vanilla is what i'm mostly into anyways) on an old phone that has an inactive sim card. The card's still in there, but doesn't get any service.

Does anyone know for sure if it collects sensitive information that could be read by provider or anything like that? Like what porn videos I'm watching?



laura.loli - Group: Unofficial Gardener's Guild - Total Posts: 350
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Posted on: 05/06/21 09:03PM

SadSap said:
Sometimes I browse porn (only the vanilla stuff, vanilla is what i'm mostly into anyways) on an old phone that has an inactive sim card. The card's still in there, but doesn't get any service.

Does anyone know for sure if it collects sensitive information that could be read by provider or anything like that? Like what porn videos I'm watching?

The SIM just identifies your phone/tablet to the cellular company for service, it doesn't record or transmit data on your usage of the phone. You don't have to worry about that kind of thing on it.



Haruki1995 - Group: Member - Total Posts: 37
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Posted on: 05/08/21 04:48AM

SadSap said:
Gmail and twitter suddenly locked me out my account (one after another in a span of two weeks) because they want me to "enter my phone number" to continue using their services, and it's gotten me pretty fucking peeved. I created the accounts specifically for private lewd browsing, so no, I refuse to enter my actual phone number. Hell, I'm pretty sure these companies spy on you, so why increase the spying by adding my real phone number?

Please help. Also could someone recommend a better mail service where I don't have to pay or enter a phone number? I want to try proton mail, but that's paid.


If you live in US/EU - use russian mail services, and vice versa.
Simple: russians don't care about american's lewd browsing / americans don't care what a russian guy do

Also, always use good paid vpn, for example www.privateinternetaccess.com/



SadSap - Group: Member - Total Posts: 2749
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Posted on: 05/09/21 05:34PM

laura.loli said:
SadSap said:
Sometimes I browse porn (only the vanilla stuff, vanilla is what i'm mostly into anyways) on an old phone that has an inactive sim card. The card's still in there, but doesn't get any service.

Does anyone know for sure if it collects sensitive information that could be read by provider or anything like that? Like what porn videos I'm watching?

The SIM just identifies your phone/tablet to the cellular company for service, it doesn't record or transmit data on your usage of the phone. You don't have to worry about that kind of thing on it.

Thanks for the clarification.

tefe
Surveillance capitalism is one thing but also, 2-factor authentication is used as a thumb-print for your browsing activities. It helps the NSA and other "numbered eyes" spy agencies/countries tie your anonymous accounts together, and make you more identifiable. Anonymity is dying.


I absolutely believe this.



SadSap - Group: Member - Total Posts: 2749
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Posted on: 05/09/21 05:39PM

Anyway, fuck you google.

Imagine having an account you've had since puberty, that you used on and off, never making a single public comment or contact, then suddenly you need to input personal information to login.

And the bullshit of "This device isn't recognized". Yeah, sure, considering I've been using the same PC for three years and logging in frequently with it. Sure, that makes a lot sense.

Fuck you google.

It's not even like I need the account that much, it's the fact the system is blatantly lying in my face for reasons that are likely spying reasons.



laura.loli - Group: Unofficial Gardener's Guild - Total Posts: 350
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Posted on: 05/09/21 08:59PM

Haruki1995 said:
If you live in US/EU - use russian mail services, and vice versa.
Simple: russians don't care about american's lewd browsing / americans don't care what a russian guy do

I don't know about all Russian mail services, but while Yandex will let you create an account without a phone number, it will not actually send or receive email. I went through that before finding Proton Mail, and it was maddening. It doesn't actually tell you it won't work, it just fails.

SadSap said:
Anyway, fuck you google.

Imagine having an account you've had since puberty, that you used on and off, never making a single public comment or contact, then suddenly you need to input personal information to login.

And the bullshit of "This device isn't recognized". Yeah, sure, considering I've been using the same PC for three years and logging in frequently with it. Sure, that makes a lot sense.

Fuck you google.

It's not even like I need the account that much, it's the fact the system is blatantly lying in my face for reasons that are likely spying reasons.

It's probably because you used it sporadically that it happened. When you use it all the time, they know for sure it's you and don't do that to you. Also using a different browser on the same computer gets the "This device isn't recognized" message, even if it's the same type of browser. (For example using a second profile in Chrome will get that message when you try logging into Gmail.)

Not defending it, just explaining based on what I've seen from them in the past.



PietroSoft - Group: Member - Total Posts: 2500
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Posted on: 05/09/21 09:03PM

laura.loli said:
It's probably because you used it sporadically that it happened. When you use it all the time, they know for sure it's you and don't do that to you. Also using a different browser on the same computer gets the "This device isn't recognized" message, even if it's the same type of browser. (For example using a second profile in Chrome will get that message when you try logging into Gmail.)

Not defending it, just explaining based on what I've seen from them in the past.

Google is now going bonkers with 2FA too arstechnica.com/gadgets/2...y-enrolling-users-in-2fa/. And to enable it, they need your phone.



SadSap - Group: Member - Total Posts: 2749
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Posted on: 05/13/21 09:42PM

laura.loli said:
It's probably because you used it sporadically that it happened. When you use it all the time, they know for sure it's you and don't do that to you. Also using a different browser on the same computer gets the "This device isn't recognized" message, even if it's the same type of browser. (For example using a second profile in Chrome will get that message when you try logging into Gmail.)

Not defending it, just explaining based on what I've seen from them in the past.

Except for the fact that I've been logging onto that account for 3 years straight on a new PC. So google's claim that "the device isn't reconigzed" is an utter lie. If so, it should've done it after the first few days when I began logging in from a new PC.

PietroSoft said:
Google is now going bonkers with 2FA too arstechnica.com/gadgets/2...y-enrolling-users-in-2fa/. And to enable it, they need your phone.

That explains a lot, actually. And the date of the article is nearly the same day it happened.



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