Tips for Anonymity on Youtube

[ten dollars off]

Is it possible to create YouTube videos, gain an audience, and maintain real anonymity? Personalities like Metokur eluded doxxing for quite a while. How did they and others most commonly fuck up?

 

[POWER IN MISERY]

what kind of videos are you planning to make?

 

[ten dollars off]

what kind of videos are you planning to make?

I'm not sure yet. But let's assume they upset companies or individuals enough to try to come after me.

 

[NOT Sword Fighter Super]

Metokur got doxed because he let enough information slip for Zed to find his gf's voter registration card.

Just don't talk about personal shit, like at all.

 

[POWER IN MISERY]

I'm not sure yet. But let's assume they upset companies or individuals enough to try to come after me.

damn bro, no wonder you want to remain anonymous. do you have any clips you could post here?

 

[biggest big boy]

too late. i've already got your info B)

 

[byuu]

Stay out of drama stuff and no one would even bother doxing you.

 

[Banworld]

It's definitely possible, but if you get DMCA'd you can't respond or YouTube will give your info to whoever is involved as it technically becomes a legal matter. Monetising is the same, I think, you have to have legit details for monetisation as well from what I know. If you really want to monetise there's always crypto, and I think privacy.com lets you set up private credit cards.

If you stay on-point and don't mention anything about your personal life, then sure. Issue is, people get caught up in anecdotes and things of that nature, which reveal their identity. People are always closer to getting doxed than they think. Consider a video with just a black background and a voice:

• If the voice is male, you've immediately removed searching for 50% of the population.
• If the voice has an accent, you can likely pin down where they're from - i.e. Sargon is definitely British, from his voice alone.
• If the voice is young, you know you're roughly dealing with someone who's 18-30ish.

Then if they mention a place they lived, then you can check the voter roll for that time period and you've gone from literal millions to a few hundred or a few thousand. If they mention they lived with a girlfriend, then now you're searching for a young man with a young woman of a similar age on a voter roll for that area.

If companies are seriously going to come after you, then they might sue you for libel and subpoena Google for your info. But that would only occur if you had a serious following and made a claim they knew they could shut you up over, and cared to do so.

 

[User names must be unique]

Don't use anything that could tie back to a different/old internet handle belonging to you: names, avatars, artstyle, music or even privileged information. everything should be brand new from scratch.

 

[Celebrate Nite]

Stay out of drama stuff and no one would even bother doxing you.

Just don't talk about personal shit, like at all.

^This. You're better off doing safe shit like lets plays or reviews or tutorials/instructional videos while putting your own spin on them to make them somewhat original and unique.

If you have to speak, especially if you're making a "riff" of something, just do it like how this guy does it and just make a fuck-ton of text frames. Even giving people a voice to your name is too much.

 

[legtard respecter]

as for the voice thing, it seems things like fifteen.ai has come far at imitating cartoon character voices, combine this with the purpose of a site like thispersondoesnotexist and you could probably get a good consistent fake voice for your videos if needed

only problem is someone hasnt made that yet

 

[Disheveled Human]

Is it possible to create YouTube videos, gain an audience, and maintain real anonymity? Personalities like Metokur eluded doxxing for quite a while. How did they and others most commonly fuck up?

Unless you get a push from a big creator or you suck Susans ass off you are not gonna become big enough for anyone to care that ship has sailed years ago. In the event you do become famous delete all your social media accounts, follow no other channels, never show your face or anything related to IRL. Do not tell anyone in real life about what you do or leave out details about it to them. Do not use your real E-mail set up one specifically for your channel, never slip up and mention where you live and if you are using screen captures on websites with ads or things that pinpoint your location I.E Twitter side bars that mention news based on your location use a tor. Never show your username on things like steam or any other non youtube account since this is the number one way people dox is by following user names to older usernames on various sites and can pinpoint who you are by finding an account that leads to your old highschool socials because you used to go under the name "AssMaster55" on steam 8 years ago and that name is linked to your old twitter ect.

With all this being said you still might be doxed anyways autistic folks are insanely good at finding slip-ups.

 

[Console]

It might be worth considering whether you trust Google themselves, as well as other dependent organisations. Attempting to create a Google account with a VPN triggers their anti-bot mechanism, then requiring you to authenticate with a phone number over SMS. Without a VPN you can create an account without phone verification. Local phone services require your personal information to register a SIM card in my country. There are anecdotes that Google blocks online burner phone services too.

You have limited options to avoid this. Google might allow you to create an account without verification using public Wi-Fi, but that would still expose your location at the time of creation. It's possible to sign up for some other internet service to perform account creation from a VM or shared instance, using remote access or SSH to run a browser or cURL. A lot of these services require payment, which brings up new issues for remaining absolutely anonymous. However I'm sure there's something out there that's won't require identifying payment information, has the features you need, and is lax on data collection.

Keep in mind that every social media platform runs artificial intelligence sentiment analysis of all user generated content that they can. This is not some tinfoil conspiracy theory. Each Infrastructure As A Service platform, like Amazon Web Services and Google Cloud et al., sells text and audio AI services that can gauge whether communication is positive or negative. Twitter even exposes part of this in their public, free API. You can be certain these companies are scoring everything. That's a factor they feed into their algorithms. The most obvious example of this is how Twitter will hide responses under the "Show more replies" button, even more again under "Show addition replies[...] that may contain offensive content", and they likely pull the same tricks against accounts too forcing all media behind a "potentially sensitive content" warning. It's much worse on YouTube, because they are less transparent, and the effect breaks the user experience in far more cryptic ways.

A lot of this is probably outside the scope of what you ultimately want to do. However, I'm sure it's relevant to some people out there. Worst of all, in the future this might become more essential knowledge if you just want to have fun on the sanitized and surveilled internet.

 

[melty]

Why not put out bad information? Say you went to college somewhere else, or grew up in a different state. Get people running around trying to find the manager of Wendy's in south dakota whose childhood dog was named Rufus.

 

[Aidan]

If you want true anonymity then it'd be ridiculously difficult, especially if you live in the US or Europe. If you just want anonymity from viewers then of course it's possible but you'd have to really make it a point to separate you from your youtube self as has already been covered. It just takes a few totally unrelated things to narrow you down reasonably well and people will sift through everything to figure you out.

Is it really worth the effort?

 

[ten dollars off]

Is it really worth the effort?

All things considered, probably not.

 

[bippu_as_fuck_ls400]

A worthwhile read and things to keep in mind:
https://www.ivpn.net/privacy-guides/online-privacy-through-opsec-and-compartmentalization-part-1/ (https://archive.vn/kD8W8)
https://www.ivpn.net/privacy-guides/online-privacy-through-opsec-and-compartmentalization-part-2/ (https://archive.vn/BDscA)
https://www.ivpn.net/privacy-guides/online-privacy-through-opsec-and-compartmentalization-part-3/ (https://archive.vn/e76Pj)
https://www.ivpn.net/privacy-guides/online-privacy-through-opsec-and-compartmentalization-part-4/ (https://archive.vn/if5Ro)

 

[stares at error messages]

Buy a drop phone for your google account.

 

[Rekkington]

Metokur got doxed because he let enough information slip for Zed to find his gf's voter registration card.

Just don't talk about personal shit, like at all.

Metokur is an example of how to do it right: it's not so much about remaining anonymous, but being sure there's enough conflicting identities out there that people can't tell which is which and just give up.
A lot of people get doxed cause they slip up in ways like showing their own desktop on a stream and having their Facebook open, being lazy with using the same usernames for everything, or not having a cover for their webcam and having it accidentally turn on. Just be careful to keep it separate and be extremely paranoid about what you have on your desktop at any given time.

 

[NOT Sword Fighter Super]

Why not put out bad information? Say you went to college somewhere else, or grew up in a different state. Get people running around trying to find the manager of Wendy's in south dakota whose childhood dog was named Rufus.

This is good, but you've got to keep track of your lies so you remember them and are consistent with them.

Metokur is an example of how to do it right: it's not so much about remaining anonymous, but being sure there's enough conflicting identities out there that people can't tell which is which and just give up.

Or do this. This is also pretty good.