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Want to sign up to Facebook/Meta Messenger, how can I mitigate the privacy invasion as much as possible? (lemmy.ml)
submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by to c/privacy@lemmy.ml
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I only plan to use it for messaging in a couple of sports teams and event invitations.

I'm willing to take a lot of measures as long as they don't get the account blocked - no phone app, dedicated virtual machine+VPN to isolate from other internet activity, purchased fake phone number in signup, adding fake interests and life details. However, I won't provide any real ID/photos, are these needed for signup?

Update: registered with a well-known VPN and an online purchased fake number. Added a couple of friends and made a few junk posts. Asked to confirm with selfie after 4 days, didn't have any activity whatsoever during the last two days so it wasn't as if I did any action which immediately triggered the check.

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[–] [S] 2 points 1 year ago

I always ended up ban after a fews days because of “suspicious activities” (probably because of VPN or PiHole)

I remember trying to make a fake account with friends for fun many years ago when we I learned about thispersondoesnotexist. Got ID-blocked within a few hours for sus acts, probably less because of the VPN and more because we started friend requesting dozens of strangers and set our birthplace to a food court.

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