lethe/mayvaneday
1
0
Fork 0
Code Releases Activity

New post: Woman who would have been revered prophetess 4,000 years ago now relegated to clicking links, opening tabs

Browse source
This commit is contained in:
Lethe Beltane 2022-11-01 04:14:03 -05:00
parent cf478cd095
commit 75023b6eb6
Signed by: lethe
GPG key ID: 21A3DA3DE29CB63C
6 changed files with 60 additions and 1 deletions
Download patch file Download diff file Expand all files Collapse all files

2
blog/2022/october/email.html
View file

@ -105,7 +105,7 @@
</table>
<p>Conclusion: <strong>as far as Tor-available email providers go, ProtonMail has the highest deliverability</strong>. SecTor.City has piss-poor deliverability, but they work for the purposes of getting a ProtonMail account. <strong>If you don't want to daisychain email providers together like this, Onion Mail comes in second</strong> but also has a relatively low quota of emails you can send per day on the free plan, a fact which considerably slowed my research for this post down.</p>
<p>But anonymous email addresses are kind of useless if you don't already have someone you want to talk to. So I took my new plethora of addresses and attempted to sign up for some mainstream social media sites.</p>
<p>Reddit isn't nearly as hostile to Tor users as I had expected. They accepted my Onion Mail address without issue. However, reCAPTCHA, better known as "please click seven thousand traffic lights", kept accusing my IP of being part of a botnet. I had to restart Tor Browser no less than <em>seven</em> tims (I counted) before I got a clean IP that reCAPTCHA would let through. My problems with Reddit after that were less "ew, Tor user" and more "AutoMod is set to remove posts/downvotes from extremely new accounts"... until suddenly the "join" button on subreddits stopped working. Although maybe that was just Jett trying to keep me from purposely wading into cringe.</p>
<p>Reddit isn't nearly as hostile to Tor users as I had expected. They accepted my Onion Mail address without issue. However, reCAPTCHA, better known as "please click seven thousand traffic lights", kept accusing my IP of being part of a botnet. I had to restart Tor Browser no less than <em>seven</em> times (I counted) before I got a clean IP that reCAPTCHA would let through. My problems with Reddit after that were less "ew, Tor user" and more "AutoMod is set to remove posts/downvotes from extremely new accounts"... until suddenly the "join" button on subreddits stopped working. Although maybe that was just Jett trying to keep me from purposely wading into cringe.</p>
<p>Something with Tor Browser's implementation of uBlock Origin prevented me from completing the Twitter signup, even via the <a href="https://twitter3e4tixl4xyajtrzo62zg5vztmjuricljdp2c5kshju4avyoid.onion">hidden service</a>. Smashing the F12 button on my keyboard revealed that uBlock Origin was blocking a third-party domain used to load "Arkose challenges", which Twitter uses instead of captchas. For example, one of the "Arkose challenges" shows six images of monochrome dice with symbols on them, and you have to pick the image where two of the dice have the same symbol on top. Temporarily disabling uBlock Origin allowed me to complete these, but then Twitter threw a "we can't complete your signup right now" error. So I booted up Falkon and configured it to use a random proxy from <a href="https://openproxylist.com">this free proxy list</a>. It worked for a few hours until my account was locked for "suspicious activity". I did another "Arkose challenge" to prove I was a human, but I ended up locked out of the account anyway because Twitter demanded I give them a phone number.</p>
<p>I didn't test Facebook or Instagram despite a Tor hidden service for Facebook existing because I already knew I'd get locked out of any account I made in five minutes with a demand to see my driver's license. Tumblr works fine if you can get past the billion captchas every time you want to log in. Ovarit works fine if you have an invite code, although I don't know why you'd want to join <a href="./ovarit.html"><em>that</em> cesspit given recent events</a>. I'm sure ThePinkPill will work fine once (if) registrations open up again.</p>
<p>In conclusion, the "age" of anonymous email is <em>far</em> from over. Providers who don't need to know any information about you are still alive and well. As with anything that research-allergic boomers or technological doomers think is dying, anonymous email is still out there... you just have to know where to look.</p>