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The amount of security you get out of creating a new email address is phenomenal and it's one of the easiest things you can do. It's basically the only thing propping up this story and all it would have required was 5 minutes on gmail (two minutes to create an account, two minutes to create the second account that you are actually going to use setting the first address as its recovery option, a minute to shake your head in disappointment at Richard Hanania.)
The last time I tried this Google locked me out of my account, saying I had to sign in with the same browser I created my account with. I couldn't do this, because I had created the account using a temporary browser profile. It's there a better free provider that doesn't do this? I used to use sharklasers.com, but a lot of sites now block that domain.
Not that I'm aware of, but things like that are part of the reason I always make two accounts and create a recovery email chain. Also instead of using incognito, download Firefox or brave or some other browser you don't use. And basically use that browser only for things tied to your new identity, and if you decide to move on you can just scrub that browser off your system. Oh and if you are going to use edge and you already use chrome or vice versa, make sure you turn off all the syncing shit that copies cookies and other data between them.
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Don't you need to provide a phone number to create a gmail account these days? And, if you want to use it to view 18+ youtube content or whatever, you also need to provide a credit card or ID?
https://github.com/zerodytrash/Simple-YouTube-Age-Restriction-Bypass
Ha, that's awesome!
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Seems to work nicely. Thanks!
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Nope! It had been two months since I last created an email account, so I was a bit worried when I read this, but I just made bugsinmyeyescharles@gmail.com and no phone number was necessary. They give you the option for recovery purposes, but you can skip it if you like. You can skip adding a recovery email too, which is a good idea if this is your first burner email actually, I didn't realise you could skip that too (and I always use the last burner I made up as the recovery so there is a link, but you would have to connect around 27 other accounts as well to see an email address with any ties to my physical identity.)
Edit: I wanted to bust this comment out quick to illustrate the ease of creating a new email address, and I forgot about the age thing - yeah, you would, but this is about pseudonymously expressing your heart's deepest and most racist thoughts, not watching strippercise videos. Like all security issues, you do have to give up some convenience - in this case engaging with the stupidest comment sections on the internet.
It demands one from me
O_o That's odd, it definitely worked for me (and I'm sad nobody has signed my new email address up to a bunch of bizarre newsletters.) Maybe it's a location thing - I always have my vpn set to somewhere on the pacific rim, maybe that will fix it? (also make sure you have all location tracking turned off if you are using Windows otherwise you may as well not use a vpn).
Well, I already created several accounts so maybe I am flagged as problematic. Or maybe it classifies people from my area as more suspect.
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