I want to start posting on twitter but with most anonimity possible. I am afraid that twitter my flag my acc for suspicious behavior. This happend to me once when I was using my old VM system and all my comments were dumped into “spam” section. I dont know the actual reason - whether this was my VPN (however twitter does not forbid VPN) or some kind of fingerpriting? Before i start my trial-and-error run I would like to hear and external opinion about my idea and VM setup to:
Fresh Ubuntu system
NAT Adapter instead of bridge
No host integration (like drag-and-drop) and no guest additions
Firefox with privacy extenions / Brave with profiles
always same system language as my VPN
Something to prevent getting fingerprinted by canvas
What else I have to do to start posting anonymously without risk of being flagged/shadowbanned? Any tips are welcome. And to be clear: i am not going to post anything bad. I wont probably break ToS. Just want to make sure no one who doesnt like me wont find me.
Here are some anti-detect browsers I’ve tried. They’ve all worked well at preventing captchas and allowing sign ups. Can’t speak to their privsec or anonymity. Incognet comes with free proxies and I was able to make a google account with it giving option to send sms to me instead of me having to send to them. The others you can use VPNs or buy proxies.
In my experience, VPN is usually the culprit. Even if the site doesn’t explicitly ban access, those IPs are not a secret for long. Spam prevention systems catalog them, identify you as a user masking your IP, and raise your spam score
The only mitigation would be to avoid proxies that are shared with other users who may get the IP flagged, something like a personal VPS. But then you face a tradeoff: your public IP will be pretty unique, you may be trackable across sessions
Which social media? Bluesky and Mastodon don’t care about VPNs and aliases that much. Facebook will require face scan if you sign-up with one. X will generally allow you to create an account but you will be banned soon after.
The setup can become suspicious if it looks too perfect or changes a lot. I would keep the browser boring, avoid lots of anti-fingerprint extensions, and make the account pattern consistent: same region/language, same device profile, no fast mass-following, and a few days of normal reading before posting much. For anonymity, separate the account from your real phone/email and contacts, but do not expect X to be friendly to VPN-only new accounts.
Sorry for late response, was out. I am aiming for X with incognito browser + proxies now instead only VPN. I red that is the way. Thank for info tho. Do you know anything about Truth social media?
They don’t like VPNs but I have been able to create an account anyway. Though I don’t often need it. I just use trumpstruth.org to check what Trump is blabbing about.
Honestly, I feel for like 90% of sites it just all comes down to the IP address. If you use a residential proxy, you’re most likely going to be fine. Though, like you’ve pointed out, I think Twitter is like friendly with VPNs. So honestly, I feel it’s really rare to get shadow banned on Twitter unless it’s like a new account. And then, unless you created your new account using the VPN and then you immediately started posting so many posts/comments.
But 99% of cases, if it’s like an already established account, you can effortlessly, you know, just connect to your VPN and use the setup. And I don’t really think there’s any problem with using the setup. Though I think there are also some front-end services that could help out. Don’t quote me on that, by the way.
I feel where most people fail is that they always try to create the accounts anonymously. Like for most social media sites, you’re trying to create an account anonymously. Unless if you’re using a residential proxy, you’ll fail like you’ll get shadow banned like 90% all the time. For accounts, I usually just buy them in bulk lol
That’s not my experience. The amount of content you post will not matter to you getting banned. Sign up with a VPN and an allias, and I get banned a few days after no matter what.
Use an antidetect browser. Donut is decent, but keep in mind the actual browser implementation is closed-source.
Purchase a residential or ISP proxy and use that in the browser profile. A benefit of this is you can still be connected to your VPN normally. You can also use the proxy as a socks5 gateway in an android profile just for social apps using SocksTun.
Use disposable non-voip phone providers wherever possible, but beware the risk of account loss. Best to enable 2fa with OTP or passkeys instead.
Network access is another question. Look up proxy chaining if you need true anonymity for posting.