I'm a n00b in the VPN world who just discovered that there are several very popular reasons why a person might choose to use a VPN. I discovered that people use VPN's so they can pirate software from sites like PirateBay without getting caught. Another apparent famous reason is so they can stay safe and anonymous at a public hot spot, say for instance at an airport or at a coffee shop.
My reason for using a VPN is completely different and, perhaps, not a common topic - and thus you may not find many, or any, discussion forums in Cyberspace that have discussed the subject I'll be discussing in this thread.
In order to achieve the VPN related goal I have in mind I have no choice. It's imperative that I go to a technical discussion forum like this one so I can ask people that are technically smarter than I am just how I can go about of achieving my goal.
Many assumptions are bad. The following is a grand assumption that I feel s a valid assumption once you hear me out: There aren't many webmasters and moderators who run discussion forums in Cyberspace that will allow their members to share information about the topic of this thread.
Here's something a little interesting thing about what I'm trying to achieve with a VPN: If I were to go to a popular technical discussion forum that gets a lot of traffic on a daily basis (for example discussion forums like anandtech dot com, hdforums dot com, or blackhatworld dot com) the webmaster and the moderators would not allow me to publish this post. This post would be taken down and instantly deleted in a matter of seconds.
It would also be deleted from Google's discussion forum. Google would not want people to know the answer to the question I am about ready to ask - because Google does not want you to know how you can create multiple YouTube accounts.
And so it is safe to say that the webmasters and moderators who run discussion forums would never allow a post like this one to be published unless you pay them enough money that would allow them to quit their day job so they would never have to work another day in their life. Sorry, I don't have that kind of money!
I hope the moderators and webmaster who run the BolehVPN discussion forum will allow this type of post to be published. I think they will because a forum of this type is a specialized, esoteric forum that does not have a lot of people who tend to have a high post count.
A forum such as this one is not made up of people who come back again day after day after day to make 10 or 20 posts a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year, like you would see at other forums that deal with an entirely different subject matter.
A person will come to a forum like this one in order to try and fix a VPN related problem and then when the problem is fixed you won't find them coming back to post 24/7/365 days a year. In other words, unlike forums like RottenTomatoes dot com, most people here have a very low post count. I'm making light of these realities so the moderators who oversee this forum will allow me to publish this post.
Here's an explanation as to what I need help in doing with the aid of a VPN. The explanation I give will eventually be followed with one(1) question related to my VPN related goal: My goal is to be able to create multiple user accounts, or multiple identities with a unique and totally different username assigned to each identity, at certain discussion forums on the Internet - without being identified as the same individual who is registering from the same computer at the same physical location.
Another similar goal related to the aforementioned goal (and I readily admit that this goal may be super-hard to achieve) is to try and fool all-mighty Google by creating multiple YouTube accounts without Google identifying me as the same individual, who is using the same computer, who is posting from the same physical location.
Those are tough goals to achieve - but I'm non-techie talkin' so maybe I'm wrong about that. For the good people out there who think they can help me with this goal, I want to try and save you valuable time by telling you what I already know, or things that I know that I need to do in order to achieve my goal of flying under the a discussion forums radar and the radar of Google and Facebook:
1) A person must create a different and unique IP address for each username - which is basic, common knowledge even for a n00b like me. And just as important (and this, I think, is VERY important), a person must be absolutely certain that each IP address is located at a different geographical location. For example, if you're registering two accounts at the same discussion forum, with the help of your VPN you would, for example, make it appear as if one account is located in Seattle, Washington while the second account would appear as if it is located in New York City.
2) Browser fingerprints: You need to try and eliminate as many fingerprints as possible - which is hard to do, even for experts. Eliminating each and every fingerprint is a tough task. I've learned that there are some things that you can do to get rid of some, but not all, fingerprints.
3) MAC address: This is a controversial topic. I say "Better safe than sorry, so it's best to change your MAC address. Especially if you're trying to fool Google and Facebook!" Some people will argue that you don't need to change the MAC address because, according to them, a webmaster can not see your MAC address. I always wonder, is that true? In order to answer that question I researched the subject. In doing research I found posters who claim that it's 50/50: they claim that some webmasters can identify your MAC address while other webmasters simply cannot identify it. Those same posters claim that an Internet giant like Google and Facebook can easily identify your MAC address without breaking into a sweat. I ask myself, are those posters correct, can you believe them? I'm not sure either way - and so in order to be on the safe side I think it best that I make darn sure that each and every unique username I create has a different MAC address assigned to it.
4) And then of course there are the little things you must do, things that are common knowledge, things like clearing your cache including flash cookies. By the way, I delete flash cookies manually. During the tests I ran I discovered programs like CCleaner will not delete each and every flash cookie as you would expect them to.
5) TOR is a great browser, I use it on a regular basis. I really appreciate TOR, which is why I donated money to them via PayPal. Unfortunately TOR is not an option a person can use when registering to a discussion forum or when logging into a discussion forum.
What I've experienced up to this point in time: I have already created multiple user accounts at certain popular discussion forums. And I've already created multiple YouTube accounts. And please note that I can easily obtain 1000 different IP addresses in one day, or even in one hour - no problem there. And there was a point in time where I actually thought I was fooling webmasters who own forums and I thought I was fooling Google, too (I created many different YouTube accounts). Boy was I wrong about that. Even though I have an unlimited number of thousands of IP addresses available to me that are free and co$t absolutely nothing, eventually I woke up and realized that I'm not fooling a discussion forums webmaster and I'm not fooling Google.
I'm not fooling them because even though I have 1000 different IP's readily available to me, each and every IP address that I create always identifies me as being at the same exact physical location: in Tijuana, Mexico - right next door to San Diego, California.
And so I'm a complete dummy at fooling webmasters and fooling Internet giants like Google and Facebook - but with your help I, and other people reading this, might learn how to use a VPN as a tool that will allow us to outsmart them so we can try and fly under their powerful, high-tech radar.
My one question is this: In order to fool webmasters, Google and Facebook, would it be best to use an IP address that's static or dynamic? My guess, my hunch, is that a static IP address is mandatory in order to fool them.
In my opinion a dynamic IP address, even if it's coming from the same physical location each and every time you log in, WOULD NOT fool them.
A dynamic IP address that, for example, is assigned to Topeka, Kansas would be no good, in my opinion. In my opinion a dynamic IP address that always changes when you log in to a discussion forum would be a HUGE clue that would cause a webmaster to be suspicious of you. To those that have the knowledge in this area of computer science: Is my opinion right or wrong?
Thank you for taking the time to read this post. And thank you for any information you can provide in dealing with a highly sensitive subject that 99.9% of the webmasters who work the Internet (along with the employees at Google and Facebook) would never allow people to discuss.
I'm not being facetious, nor am I joking, nor is my tongue planted in my cheek when I say that "Webmasters who run discussion forums and the employees at Google would classify the subject of this thread as 'Highly sensitive and forbidden.'"
Because it is information that would provide the public with techniques that would allow the average non-techie to create multiple user accounts without being identified as the same individual who uses the same computer to post from the same physical location.
It's the kind of forbidden, inside information that a forum webmaster and a Google employee might half-jokingly call "Top Secret."
Thanks again,
Alexa in Tijuana/San Diego
