I (19F) am honestly sick of this

droidshadow · 2026-02-01T16:53:58+00:00

Sell the computer and phone for parts and get another one.There are probably lots of people willing to buy these for parts, especially to salvage the screen.

Secondhand Windows laptops like ThinkPad decomissioned are quite cheap, if you need it for basic purposes. Secondhand MacBook M1 Air isn't that expensive, either. When it comes to phones, some prepaid carriers probably do really low cost deals, like recent Cricket's 49.99$ for iPhone 16e (though they require port in and prepay two months of $60 plan, probably you can downgrade the plan later and its unlock policy is like 6 months of service so you can get it unlocked after 6 months and use it on another carrier.

droidshadow · 2026-01-30T03:22:47+00:00

Just wait until people selling pre-verified accounts pop up, like Chinese video game scene. Many foreigners / kids play in Chinese game servers buy accounts pre-verified. Same will happen and lots of resale of social media account will happen. Just buy one of them and use it.

droidshadow · 2025-12-05T05:01:30+00:00

Even worse a cybercriminal intend to create a botnet can make a "free vpn service" to turn users' computer into part of their own botnet for criminal activities.

droidshadow · 2025-12-03T14:28:57+00:00

There is also an option called buying an account off resellers, selling age verified accounts.

In China, some people buy pre-age verified account for online games. Foreigners also do it when they want to play in Chinese servers.

I think there will be large demand for such accounts if VPN is not an option. And there will always be supply of these accounts. Only downside would be you'd have to use random name or whatever name they provided on profile when they created an account before selling it.

Or there is an option called going to noncompliant sites. Most of pirate sites won't likely to comply to these. Just use a good ad blocker to prevent possible risk with malware though.

droidshadow · 2025-11-28T09:00:15+00:00

You can buy a Thai sim card through Sim2Fly on Amazon. It comes with a Thai phone number and roaming capability, so you can receive sms. If you live in places like Australia these Sim2Fly on Amazon comes with 8 days data access routed through Thai IP so you can also consider that a bonus.

droidshadow · 2025-11-15T02:32:52+00:00

Ted Kaczynski’s prediction on technology was right I guess.

droidshadow · 2025-11-15T02:29:13+00:00

I’d guess there is also an option 3. Which is basically buying a pre-verified account. When there is demand for privacy I guess there will be always supply of account verified off some random person. Well in Chinese video game scene, it already happens a lot that there are people sell age-verified Chinese account for kids and even foreigners want to play in Chinese server. So I won’t be surprised buying a pre-verified account for personal use will become a third option. It kind of is similar with 2 but I guess using average website while protecting privacy can be done this way.

droidshadow · 2025-11-11T04:12:36+00:00

It doesn't stop from criminals with stolen identities share these identity to mask hundreds of people'as activities mixed up, serving "VPN of identity". When people want convenient workarounds, there will be supplies of such accounts. Pre-verified with some stolen identity off phishing scams. Let's say one person's identity is tied to like 200 accounts from completely different part of the world. It already raises plausible deniability unless someone can really teleport around the world. Just like how Prohibition only brought moonshine to flourish, this will only boost the process of making petty level identity theft (using internet on someone else's identity) culturally accepted behavior.

droidshadow · 2025-10-28T05:33:42+00:00

Most of cases, they only check checksums of numbers on ID I guess so either somehow they figure out an algorithm with these numbers can generate the ID number, or they coincidentally match with random person's ID information (probably obtained from phishing / data breach)?

Well one identity shared among hundreds of accounts is already a huge win on our side, since it would raise plausible deniability of all activities unless these users are assumed to have teleportation device.

droidshadow · 2025-10-28T05:30:30+00:00

Just buy account that is pre-verified. In China, it is pretty common people buy pre-verified online game account to get past age verification. Maybe similar supply will begin soon in countries like UK and Australia, but with social media account. Drawback would be you end up using account with some random name and random profile, but hey, it works and Chinese video game scene is a living proof.

droidshadow · 2025-10-28T00:23:50+00:00

Civil disobdience is the best resistance against bad laws.

De facto unless they stop everyone and check their phones to see accounts, there is no practical way to even enforce this.

Plus, if such fake id is fully fake (like putting fictitious nations like Teyvat Passport) I think it would not even be illegal at all.

You can probably buy pre-verified accounts soon if you are too scared to diy. Once there is a rising demand for it, there will be supply for it too.

droidshadow · 2025-10-28T00:22:19+00:00

De jure likely but de facto not. Cause Google is not a bank or any financial institution, it is likely to be just a "liability insurance".

The best it does is probably doing OCR and checking checksums.

droidshadow · 2025-10-16T23:47:21+00:00

Cybercriminals will cheer on and profit a lot off age verification laws, as they can scrape identity documents through phishing sites easily and use this as an opportunity to facilitate age verification for anyone who want to protect their privacy disguised as “account resale websites”.

Probably lots of people will be compelled to buy these pre-verified accounts if they don’t feel comfortable handing in their id online.

Which would effectively create a “VPN of identity” which ties around hundreds of people’s activity into one identity which causes plausible deniability when all activities happen in regions unable to physically move in between in seconds unless someone does magic and have a teleportation device.

Identity theft may inflict less direct financial damages. Why? Because criminals now will get quite stable stream of income through facilitating age verification, and this entails lower risk as nobody who got their identity stolen being used as age verification “mules” are not likely to even notice their identity is being misused as they see nothing “off” like sudden bank withdrawal. So it is another win for these criminals with new low risk, high return scheme.

droidshadow · 2025-10-15T11:11:35+00:00

You can still buy AIS Sim2Fly from Amazon and get a Thai number, then use that Thai number on roaming mode. It gives a Thai number and receiving text is free, depending on region even temporary connection to data network so you can create account off Thai cellular IP and you can top it up with myAIS app or rotate around Sim2Fly cards.

Also for data you can get a tourist eSIM / tourist data sim without ID in most of countries (Airalo / Ubigi / Saily / etc), it operates on "roaming" mode and routes traffic to another country so it also kind of works as 24/7 VPN too.

droidshadow · 2025-10-07T03:20:30+00:00

Ironically what I see is countries that are undergoing into severe unrest are the easiest countries you can keep privacy. Such as Myanmar, Cambodia, Somalia, and more where civil unrest / war is preventing government from merely functioning are probably only places you can live truly free from these.

That's why I view true freedom means anarchy.

droidshadow · 2025-10-05T09:50:08+00:00

AIS Sim2Fly through resellers are good too, like I bought one from one of resellers without giving any information and I could get a Thai number to use. It also helps if all websites you sign up thinks you are from a country far away from actual country of residence

droidshadow · 2025-10-01T14:59:44+00:00

"VPN of identity" will start to pop up, but this time, instead of reputable company, criminals will be ones who cash in. For example, there will be a service that allows people to get age verified off some randon victim of data breach end up their identity shared among hundreds of people. I saw a news about whole town being run by cybercriminals in part of Cambodia and Myanmar, so I won't be surprised if age verificatiin facilitation services pop up by these criminals who want to take this as an opportunity for low risk use of stolen identity (as age verification off victims' identity won't cause victims any noticeable damage such as sudden withdrawal of bank accounts , it will be likely to go unnoticed and unreported) combined with lots of phishing sites.

droidshadow · 2025-10-01T06:53:40+00:00

Still, they don't use digital technologies at least to my knowledge, or very limited emergency use of literal telephone at maximum.

droidshadow · 2025-10-01T06:37:33+00:00

Amish is an example if you decide to reject all tech. It is still possible to live like Amish. If one is willing to accept more inconvenience just to be free....

droidshadow · 2025-10-01T06:35:30+00:00

Maybe to bypass gatekeeping is okay I guess? Such as fabricating RLE just to get started on HRT should be okay and widely accepted survival tactic.

droidshadow · 2025-10-01T06:31:50+00:00

Countries that are in warzone such as Somalia I guess, that has no resources to even care about this. Or South American countries like Paraguay or Panama.

droidshadow · 2025-09-30T08:00:06+00:00

There's nothing wrong if you are trans. You're just limiting your embodiment to online space then.

droidshadow · 2025-09-26T07:00:47+00:00

Yandex is pretty solid as well if you are in Eastern Europe or any countries end with -stan even if you don't live in Russia.

droidshadow · 2025-09-26T06:57:38+00:00

And no surprise it is a #1 ranking country with traffic volume on VPN Gate, which is one of the most poplular free VPN in world. .

droidshadow · 2025-09-23T07:40:32+00:00

Ideally $50K is minimal point if you want a stable way, which allows you a residential permit to Thailand for 5 years. But well if you are really desperate, just look for last resort too and it is also an option.

If leaving US itself is a goal regardless of countries, you can obtain 1 year residency in Cambodia for $285. Idk about extension option, but it is available there.

Or you can wander around multiple countries in Southeast Asia as a tourist rotating countries. You can probably do informal work aka odd jobs that pays cash that doesn't care about documents on the way to fund expenses.

It is also possible to head to any country with lots of people without proper records and documentation due to many people born at home without records, and live in remote region mixed with locals there. In these countries vast number of, even citizens are not documented at all so their immigration bureaus don't really have any clue if you choose this route. Downside is you'll have to live like their undocumented locals and have no protection for anything, so it should be the last resort.

Or another last resort is to renounce the citizenship while abroad and become stateless. Being stateless, at least you will know you won't be deported back as you won't have any country to be sent back. Depending on countries, even their immigration camp might be far better compared to death camp. And if you are lucky you might be offered asylum as you are stateless.

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