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Hopefully there are popular services which can allow anonymous comments, posts without creating accounts. I find it harder and harder to see such things. Today
by dragonsh 7y ago
Hopefully there are popular services which can allow anonymous comments, posts without creating accounts.
I find it harder and harder to see such things. Today majority of the sites don't even work in privacy mode forget about anonymous.
I believe Google, Facebook, Amazon, Microsoft or any other company whose business depends on customer personal information will have incentive to promote it really. Yes they might have efforts towards some privacy which does not affect their profit. But anonymity will never be supported by then. Try using any of their services over Tor network and see the issues.
- mandelbrotwurst 7y agoFYI Facebook has actually taken steps to support access over Tor (https://m.facebook.com/notes/facebook-over-tor/1-million-people-use-facebook-over-tor/865624066877648 https://m.facebook.com/notes/facebook-over-tor/1-million-peo...). That said, they're of course still enforcing their real name policy and so your general point still stands.
- Fnoord 7y ago> That said, they're of course still enforcing their real name policy and so your general point still stands. Last time I checked (2013?), not in Germany. Germans are allowed to use any (nick)name.
- dragonsh 7y agoVerifying your login by asking for mobile phone in many cases. Put captcha before login are all means to identify a person indirectly. I have not yet tried it in EU, but for rest of the world, Facebook and other services do it very often. They precisely want to know your location by some means and when they cannot a dreaded verification process starts.