Previously: Quick and Dirty Anon Building Guide
This is a short guide to help you start developing an anonymous developer account.
- Create a new browser profile in your browser of choice
- Firefox and derivatives: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/profile-manager-create-remove-switch-firefox-profiles
- Chrome and derivaties: https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/2364824?hl=en&co=GENIE.Platform%3DDesktop
- Create a new Protonmail account.
- Protonmail doesn't ask for any personally identifiable information when setting up a new account
- For recovery options, ensure that you don't use an email that can dox or your phone number
- Create a corresponding ProtonVPN account
- Use this VPN whenever you are in anon mode
- Create a GitHub account with your new email
- Generate new SSH keys and add them to this GitHub account
- Create a new Twitter account with your new identity
- Create a new Reddit account with your new identity
- Use a request subreddit of your choice to get a new unique pfp for your new anon account
- Create a cryptpad.fr and a hackmd account for all your note taking, and encrypted storage needs
- Go on privacytools.io for other tools that you can use to keep yourself private
- (Optional) Install ublock origin, privacy badger and https everywhere in your new browser profile
- Extra reading and considerations: 0xngmi's guide for staying anon