I recently took the plunge on the site and got a few girls lined up. A very cute sexual submissive 21 y/o that will do ppm for under $350.
But my question is for those hobbyists who are in a relationship (wife/gf) and how to make sure it doesn’t blow back. I know pro’s are much much easier to keep it on lock.
Thanks guys
Online privacy in this hobby is a interesting topic and I’ve put a lot of thought and research into this over the years. Below are the disciplines I try to practice, some are likely obvious to most, some a little more nuanced:
Practice good browsing habits. Always in private mode. The temptation to autosave log ins to avoid the hassle of logging in manually repeatedly needs to be resisted. Make sure that there isn’t anything logging your browsing history. I don’t mean spyware or key loggers necessarily I mean your router (most have logging features that can be turned on or off), and make sure you are flushing your DNS regularly. If you don’t know what that is, google it and before flushing it, check for yourself what incriminations lie there. I personally don’t feel the need to use a VPN service, I could care less if my ISP has logs showing that I frequent this site and SA.
Use prepaids to purchase memberships. Even if you feel that no one else has access to the card data, look what happened at AM a few years ago. Not worth the risk.
Use a completely separate email from your normal email addresses. This might sound obvious but anyone who browsed the AM hack has seen how many people used their normal email addresses and in many cases, their corporate email addresses.
Just like for email, use a completely separate phone number. Your real phone number is probably linked to dozens of other accounts that can trigger identity finding suggestions in social media apps. Not to mention the logging of every number that calls or texts on your phone account which will be available to anyone who can log into your telecom provider. It’s been a while since I researched the various burner apps, but I’ve always been happy with Hushed. They have a passcode barrier to get in the app, so even if someone is in my phone they cannot get into the sanctum of mischief that could be contained inside the app. It’s user friendly and relatively cheap. Warning: As with everything you do online there are digital fingerprints created with virtually everything you do. Download an app from the app store? That lives forever. Even if you hide it, anyone with access to your Itunes account can go in and see apps that have been hidden. Subscriptions are even easier to find. If you share an apple ID with someone, burner apps might not be the way to go. Google Voice is another alternative and doesn't require an app.
@didi88 mentioned most of what I would suggest about ID protection in his post. Its not just about protecting from scammers or blackmailers, something that starts out in a good way can end with scorned feelings and intents of revenge. Try to protect your ID as best you can. This is one of the toughest aspects of the hobby in my opinion. Between credit cards, hotel check ins, Uber rides (you can set your name to anything, but do be careful about the logging of the trips…more digital fingerprints), it can be tough to keep anonymity. Keep it going as long as you can. A personal preference on fake names: Use the name of an obscure celebrity or minor sports figure. When someone online searches for your fake name it will create a lot of noise in the search results and make it unclear if the name is a fake or if you are just the less famous of your name holders. Google sloopjohnb and see if you get any of my activity from the various mongering sites. It’ll probably be just a lot of beach boys.
Don’t use a picture that has been used anywhere else in the past. Reverse image look up might find it and out you.
Pick discreet locations where you are unlikely to see or be seen by anyone you know. This is always a fear of mine as you can never eliminate this possibility entirely. Also you don’t want to emit vibes like a paranoid wreck looking around all the time. I pick restaurants in locations that are not often frequented by those in my industry and I almost always scout the locations in advance and specifically request tables that are less visible, hoping that in the event there is someone I know there, I might still be able to slink out undetected. I mean I always have a backup story, but who knows how convincingly that would play. I have had 2 instances over the years of near encounters, both were on the street and I narrowly escaped both without being seen. Play out how you would handle if you ran into someone, you’ll likely be more convincing if you’ve mentally rehearsed than if you just stammer a bunch of nonsense on the spot.
Social Media. I honestly feel that anonymous mongering as I know it is in its waning days, largely due to social media and facial recognition technology. For starters Linkedin is the worst. If someone has your first name, the industry and city you work in and a little time on their hands they will likely find you if you have a linkedin profile. Like Didi88 said, you need to have an alternate reality when It comes to your name and occupation. The main social media sites FB, IG, SC, have pretty advanced friend suggestion algorithms. I can’t tell you how many times someone I’ve been in contact with on SA shows up as a friend suggestion weeks later on one of these sites. Sometimes it’s obvious, like you’ve put their phone number in your contacts and that is the number they have associated with their SM account. Often it even says “in your contacts” as the reason for the suggestion. Other times I get suggestions from girls I don’t think I ever put in my contacts. Its often weeks or months after I’d been texting with them, so I can rarely say with 100% certainty that I had never added them to my contacts, but it still raises my concern. (A little side note, the SM sites habitually take your contacts and even f you delete a contact, if the SM site has already uploaded it, they keep it. If you ever need a long deleted contact, go through the process of requesting your data from FB or one of the others….they’ll likely have been holding onto it for you). If social media thinks I know a girl (because I had their number in my contacts, or maybe was in the same place as them multiple times) is it making the same assumption on their end? Am I showing up as a friend suggestion in their feed? I think the answer is likely yes. I suggest keeping all SM private, not having it at all (which is difficult for some), or at the very least use profile pics that are not easily identifiable, such as a pet.
Facial recognition technology. This is going to be the death of us. Its already here, just not prevalent yet. If you use Amazon or Apple photo software you probably know you can select a face and see all the other photos featuring that same person, and it is mostly accurate. Some of you may have read about a company that uses that same style technology to match a single photo with a person’s online identity. There was a publicized case where police officers were using a company selling this kind of tech to photograph random people, learning their ID then checking that ID for warrants, and if they had one, running them down. That’s not legal. Yet. Once this tech goes mainstream…….turn out the lights on your way out.
This post grew to a ridiculous length, hopefully some of it is of value to some of you guys. I’ll add just one final anecdote: a normally cautious friend of mine fell into some sloppy habits because his SO was in no way tech savvy and he was, so he didn’t think he needed to take any special precautions. No matter how clueless you’re SO might be, know that the PI that her divorce attorney hires won’t be.
It’s not possible to practice perfect discipline, there are always loose ends no matter how careful you are, but if you follow the above, I think you’ll minimize your chances of getting scammed, caught, or worse. Good luck.