Fair warning to my fellow goats - Account anonymity in anon subs is a fallacy and what you write can and will get used against you. (whatever)

submitted ago by NeedleStack

This post is an advisory to users that your username is connected to whatever you write in anon subs.

What you write can be seen by one or more devs who’ve been given that special access. But what you may not know is that they can and do use it against you as they’ve done with me in the past and as recently as yesterday. And one or more of those users who have this ability are part of SBBH.

Some history: One of the SBBH members had a hissy fit with me over a year ago and is probably the same user who would “miraculously” happen to know it was me when I would write certain things in anon subs in the past. I’d write something and they’d make a snarky remark revealing that they knew were talking to my account. It wasn’t a huge deal but it made me aware that my username could be seen by one or more users with this special access.

Back to present day: I’d never bothered to get caught up in SBBH drama until about a week ago when I started needling them in anon subs with a comment here or there regarding their questionable activities on voat.

It didn’t take long for one of them to take the bait and clearly refer to me when making this remark about my recent comments:

http://archive.is/eBPYZ

My account is exactly 2.7 years old. Whoever wrote that comment was a fool; for so obviously ‘giving away’ that they could see it was me writing those comments (showing their hand), and to give such a sensitive shit over what I wrote (notice it took anti-SBBH comments for them to get fresh and reveal themselves).

Let this story be a warning to any of you that this ‘special access’ to see which user is writing “anon” comments creates an unfair advantage and in the wrong hands can be used against you. At the same time, these privileged few are able to enjoy the ability to hide in anon subs themselves.

@PuttItOut, users will never be free to “have their say” in anon subs until everyone but you is stripped of the ability to see who’s posting what in so-called anon subs.

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Edit: Hey, cool! My post got a "Speculation" flair. Perhaps the first in voat's history in v/Whatever.

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DrunkViking ago

To try to be anoymous, at/in/on an anonymous site like Voat, is stupid. So fuck off you that thought that.

Try to take care of some of your privacy by using cloudflare's DNS.

For those who do not know. DNS is like a phonebook. You look up the name IN THE PHONEBOOK/DNS that you want and then you will see the number to call. DNS takes your "www.google"com" that you enter in the URL, and they give your computer their IP address NUMBER to connect to, without you realizing it. AND the DNS servers track you, but Cloudflare "promises" they wont.

So use it if you can.

gabara ago

Cool, what's the address for 1.1.1.1?

DrunkViking ago

Here it is. Because it is easy to remember.

For windows: IDGAF about you mac users(but the info is the in the link anyway

Click on the Start menu, then click on Control Panel.
Click on Network and Internet.
Click on Change Adapter Settings.
Right click on the Wi-Fi network you are connected to, then click Properties.
Select Internet Protocol Version 4 (or Version 6 if desired).
Click Properties.
Write down any existing DNS server entries for future reference.
Click Use The Following DNS Server Addresses.
Replace those addresses with the 1.1.1.1 DNS addresses:
    For IPv4: 1.1.1.1 and 1.0.0.1
    For IPv6: 2606:4700:4700::1111 and 2606:4700:4700::1001
Click OK, then Close.
Restart your browser.
You’re all set! Your device now has faster, more private DNS servers ✌️✌️

And you are now using "anohter companies PHONEBOOK"

gabara ago

For windows

Based user detected: https://kek.gg/i/69kzBQ.jpg