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Most of these free things will still require some ID before letting you store any data. Using gift cards will flag and probably lock your account for further re
by AYBABTME 7y ago
Most of these free things will still require some ID before letting you store any data. Using gift cards will flag and probably lock your account for further review before you can publish anything or use any resources. Same if you created your account or logged in from a known Tor or VPN IP address. Same if you pay in cryptocurrency.
There's probably ways to do it, but I wager they're not "simple" at all. All these companies usually are required by law to make sure they can trace their customers in one way or another (Know Your Customer) and are further incentivized to prevent anonymous usage because such usage is usually done by abusive actors who'll cause problems to the platform.
I'd be very curious to see someone who did it, write up the steps they took (that anyone else could take) to actually host anything online in a truly anonymous and _simple_ manner.
- syshum 7y agoI am aware of zero "Know your customer" laws in the US for web hosting, email or other services like that Know your customer is a banking law that banks have to follow for money laundering purposes
- AYBABTME 7y agoI might be thinking of the wrong thing, but the payment gateways will need to know who the payer is, and the service provider doing the payment will need to ensure the payment isn't fraudulent (or be exposed to chargebacks), which means the service provider in the end needs to validate your ID, or someone in the chain will in any case. I'm not pretending to know every platform out there and every laws, but I think it's fair to say that accomplishing the things GP said is not simple, and that most service provider will need some form of ID somehow. Even ProtonMail will require you to make a payment or provide your phone number if you try to create an account from Tor.