Someone here, probably Mike, mentioned using monetary deposits for gmail (etc) account creation and use bypassing requiring a phone number or alternate email, or any other form of third party or secondary affiliation.
Many on this list might argue those current requirements provide undesired and untenable linkage. Though the deposit thing might have merit. As long as you have a sellable product or service, bitcoin isn't all that hard to come by in an anon fashion. A $2 USD BTC deposit could be sent. Kept if account closed for commercial spam/virus and DMCA. Returned when user cancels account. But other than those two situations, and absent legal order, google not be in a position to intervene (nanny/'abuse') becaue it cannot properly adjudicate, so the deposit would stay in all those such common other cases. Those without bitcoin could physically mail in the currency, and all deposits even be invested by google to pay for the part time newbie needed to de-envelope and ack the account. Returns in this anon mail-in case would go to a bitcoin address specified in the account. The remaining option may be a series of captcha work reasonably greater than the underpaid labor cost for per spam account. _______________________________________________ tor-talk mailing list [email protected] https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-talk
