Privacy
A place to discuss privacy and freedom in the digital world.
Privacy has become a very important issue in modern society, with companies and governments constantly abusing their power, more and more people are waking up to the importance of digital privacy.
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- Posting a link to a website containing tracking isn't great, if contents of the website are behind a paywall maybe copy them into the post
- Don't promote proprietary software
- Try to keep things on topic
- If you have a question, please try searching for previous discussions, maybe it has already been answered
- Reposts are fine, but should have at least a couple of weeks in between so that the post can reach a new audience
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Use a password generator in a password manager for the username AND password. Bitwarden is free.
Use a temporary email for email signups. getnada.com works fine, but so do many others.
Don't complicate simple, there's millions of people making random shit usernames, the only ones that are going to wind up with a pattern are the people (trying) not too. Smack a bunch of buttons on your keyboard and call it a username. Done!
Or if you want to make more work, every password manager at this point will generate random usernames.
Or for even more work, use a password manager to generate a super secure password, and use that password as your username
I sometimes use MAC addresses as usernames.
Random nicknames are not recommended, they are unique identifiers, it is better to use nicknames of famous people or movies, video games, etc., because it makes it difficult to find them on the web, especially if different ones are used on each site.
this is a really good idea
Go to reddit, pick a username from the front page, use that. Any searching into your use of it will lead to that front page post and its reposts on click mills.
There's user name generators. Even fantasy name generators too so it's not a weird jumble of letters and numbers like a password.
I let Bitwarden generate my usernames for throwaway accounts. I don't care if my username can be identified as Bitwarden-generated.
Good usernames are Google, Yahoo or Barrelroll, this is fun when someone searches for you by nickname
Pick a random book from your shelf.
- Open at a random page. Take the first word on the left page.
- Open at another random page. Take the first word on the left page
Repeat for as many words you like. Discard words you donβt like. Slam the words you like together.
Examples:
- thickestneedhelped
- ritestayoutdoors
- passedthejust
I see a pattern here...
Well I love your name π one of the best characters
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I don't create anon accounts nearly as much as you say you do, but when I do I a correct-horse generator, and just pick the first two words and mash them together. It has never produced a conflict yet.
keepass2android's password generator can generate these on mobile, and there are several for the command line.
I, too, was immediately going to recommend correct horse. It is random and it works.
English word + four numbers
That's what you think, Michael
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Try random real words until you hit one that's free! Those are the most satisfying usernames anyway imo haha
$ pwgen 8 100
Do random word generators exist?
They do. You can use passphrase generator of any pw manager. Bitwarden has a nice one
Interesting. I also found the url above.
I normally use the lastpass username generator, though fair warning, they will try to sell you lastpass.
You're still using lastpass?
No, I don't use lastpass at all. Just the username generator.