Ah. Then just buy a gift card in cash from CVS, etc. Then use it on an alternative account and delivered to one of those pickup boxes.

Still sketch though lol.

It’s public knowledge. If they want to know where you personally live, they could look it up via the ways I previously mentioned.

Heck, even if you never visit their sites, they could easily get big lists of names and addresses that may include you: all legally.

Any attempt at fighting that is likely not to be fruitful. It’s basically security by obscurity, you’re trying to complicate it via one way, but they can just go another (more obvious) way if they wanted.

I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but most people can lookup most other people’s addresses in the US for free (or cheaply) on websites like whitepages.com. Even without that, if someone is very determined, they can visit the record office for the area on get public info on you, which also likely includes address.

What’s the benefit of paying such a premium for an anonymous delivery if your address is likely already available?

The only thing I can think of is if buying something sketchy, but I’m genuinely curious here.

I actually don’t care here lol. It scares me when it makes noise but I just play with my phone anyways.

I wouldn’t condone vandalism or anything like that here.

A lot of compilers have things like timestamps in the finished product that could mess with hashes. I guess hashing the rest of it could work if hashes for non static regions are given.

Sure but how do you know those encrypted requests don’t contain personal or unexpected information?

How do we know that these solutions are more private than Discord?

Even if open source, how do we know the compiled version wasn’t altered?

I wouldn’t want to be their host … or ISP … for when Nintendo comes a knocking.

Like they’re not going to want to fight a lawsuit for this repo: they’ll cut the service off instead.

I guess if it’s hosted in a country not friendly to DMCA, etc. they may be able to get away with it. Still risky though.

A lot of the comments here are straight up nuts. Do what you do at home. If that’s a VPN, go for it. If you rawdog it, whatevs.

Https is on almost everything at this point, so just be smart like normal.

I doubt anyone cares enough to bug you that much.

… checks to see if catworld.com is real.

I didn’t know what that was yet… but probably.

I had one of the SanDisk flash drives that had some launcher thing on it and I had a password for some reason on it.

In high school, a classmate tried to guess it, 3 times and I lost everything on it forever, since it stupidly locked forever after 3 tries.

I had software projects from back then that I can never get back… including a web browser. I could have had the next Firefox…

If you’re out there, Liz: I’ll never forgive that.

Technical question: How would posts federate if private?

I mean you could start a competitor. So could anyone. Only a company like Google can afford to keep losing money on something like YouTube.

Funny thing is I wouldn’t want the content to be decentralized. It’s nice to find all my crap in one place; and let a big company waste money to serve it.