[ SECRET POST #4357 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #4357 ⌋

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Comments

Re: Advice

[(Anonymous)]

So I’ve mentioned a few times on FS that I’ve literally never had any kind of social media account. In the event that I got one, I would prefer it not connect to my RL identity in any way.

I’m pretty damn boring and I’m not worried about RL people knowing I’m a massive nerd—they know already. I have not and would never troll or send anon hate or whatever. I just want a fandom-only identity. But when I’ve tried to set up email addresses to sign up for tumblr or dreamwidth or whatever, they always want to verify phone numbers and/or link to another email address before I can use the new email account. Anyone know a way around this for someone who is at “my computer is a magic box” level, tech-knowledge wise?

Re: Advice

[(Anonymous)]

Put a fake phone number.

Re: Advice

[(Anonymous)]

I’ve tried, and then the account setup requires SMS verification, where they send a code to the fake phone number—or email address—I entered, that I have to type in before I can use the account.

Re: Advice

[(Anonymous)]

What site is this?

Re: Advice

[(Anonymous)]

I think both yahoo and hotmail—this was a year or two ago. I have existing outlook, aol (I know) and gmail accounts tied to my real name already.

Re: Advice

[philstar22]

Did you use that email for anything first? Like, maybe send an email to it from your regular email and then send out an email from that new account. I think they are probably worried about spam, so an unused, new email won't work. But maybe if you use it a bit.

Re: Advice

[(Anonymous)]

I believe that Outlook lets you make emails without a lot of checks or nonsense, but I haven't checked in a while.

You could also use a free anonymizing email service like yopmail I guess.

Re: Advice

[(Anonymous)]

I don't those sites generally publicly expose / identify your phone number, if that helps at all

Re: Advice

[(Anonymous)]

I sometimes use a site called Mailinator when I need a one-off email address. Just input a fake address ending in @mailinator.com and forget about it. If the site where you are trying to sign up sends you a confirmation email you can access it at https://www.mailinator.com/

Re: Advice

[(Anonymous)]

Use protonmail! They don't require a phonenumber.

https://protonmail.com/signup

Re: Advice

[(Anonymous)]

AYRT—I may actually end up using Protonmail, but it’s kind of sad that I’m not worried about a repressive government getting hold of my info, or hiding a super out-there porn habit from a significant other. I’m just a combo of naturally paranoid, and annoyed by targeted ads.

Storytime: I have no kids and no young relatives, but liquid baby vitamins can be used in smaller doses for chickens, which I keep. Which means I occasionally google dosage amounts and buy baby (human) vitamins. More than once, I’ve been sent sample cases of baby (human) formula in the mail a couple weeks after buying the stuff.

Also, sometimes I buy plants from online nursery catalogs. This means that every winter and spring I get sent enough plant/seed catalogs that I’ve contemplated decoupaging my entire bathroom. I don’t mind them so much; at least they’re fun to look through.

It does make me wonder if this happens to people no matter what they google/buy. If someone googles “bearded dragons” one too many times, do they get sent sample herpetology magazines? Do women who buy black leather corsets and spiky boots for Catwoman costumes get catalogs full of fetishwear?

On the other hand, I remember someone posting about how stupid amazon’s purchase suggestion algorithm was because they’d bought one toilet seat, dammit, and did not need to subscibe to get them delivered every month.

And then there’s bs like LJ/Tumblr/lots of other sites going tits up (or not) because their owning companies wanted to sanitize them to increase their userbase/people whose info they could sell/who could be sold to.

Re: Advice

[(Anonymous)]

aside from the tumblr thing, none of these things have ever happened to me (yet) and i've been making purchases over the internet for a long time.

Re: Advice

[(Anonymous)]

I like to browse Duluth Trading Company's site sometimes, so I get a lot of ads for them on other websites and it's always for their men's underwear, even though I was looking at women's clothes. The adds are cheeky so it's kind of funny but it probably looks weird to anyone looking over my shoulder that there's this banner add for underpants that's all "SWAGGER WITHOUT THE SWING IN BULLPEN UNDERWEAR!"