Today I realized that is possible login on twitter with a temp mail through VPN in a complete anonymous way. I think it’s a very good thing. I don’t understand why here a lot of people criticize Elon Musk. I think that now it’s a platform more open to debates, it’s almost free speech. No other popular big tech platform allow anonymous login.

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    1 year ago

    Are you being down voted for simply having mentioned EM? Because the ability to create anonymous accounts sounds like good news, there are still a lot of discussions happening on Twitter/X from what I see.

    Also, if it’s only for lurking, it’s possible to use twitter/x without account at all and no tracking, by using an alternative front end such as https://nitter.net or any other instance.

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      1 year ago

      You can make accounts with temporary emails through VPN on any website. This isn’t something unique to, or even new to Twitter.

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          1 year ago

          If it did, it didn’t enforce uniqueness (I know this because I’ve had multiple accounts and only one phone), so you could just as easily use a temporary phone number.

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            1 year ago

            Did you use a privacy friendly phone number? Many services like OpenAI’s chatGPT will not allowing registering with a phone number which is not from a known network provider, quite invasive.

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      1 year ago

      Yeah it’s a very good thing. Years ago I remember that it wasn’t possible and the phone number verification was mandatory at some point.

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        1 year ago

        Phone numbers, credit cards, photo ID… There are various extra verifications some sites (try to) do. Not having them is not anonymity.