More often than not, the best way to hide is to simply blend in with the crowds – this also encompasses one’s choice for a username. It is relatively simple to make a single throwaway account – just come up with a username, and off you go – however, if one makes throwaway accounts often, the task of thinking of a unique, and non-identifiable username can become a challenge. I would argue that poeple would often resort to using a pattern employing small changes for all subsequent usernames. Such patterns can be identified to a specific user if all users have their own unique patterns.
How can one reliably generate many unique-but-normal, and non-pattern-identifiable usernames?
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Yup that’s where my username came from
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It does.
What the fuck. I never knew Bitwarden had a username gen until I went to checked to see if it did, and I immediately notice it
It’s fairly recent, and I don’t think they advertise it. It appeared one day in the generator. 😆
I don’t think it’s particularly good, but it’s something!
Must be a new feature. I developed a client for BW 6 months ago, and this was definitely not a thing.
It’s been in the Chrome extension for at least a year.
Must be client side only. TIL
It’s really not all that different from a passphrase generator
Well, the same thing, but just not part of the BW server API is all.
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It’s not a public project. It was based on their docs to be compliant though, much the same as the vaultwarden project.
Use a password generator in a password manager for the username AND password. Bitwarden is free.
Use a temporary email for email signups. getnada.com works fine, but so do many others.
Skiff is great. They even generate an @random.maskmy.id so you can type anything before @. It’s nothing new but great since you can set 5 static aliases also.
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Or for even more work, use a password manager to generate a super secure password, and use that password as your username
I sometimes use MAC addresses as usernames.
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And your username has enlightened me that the fediverse lets us have spaces in our usernames (?)
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Boost doesn’t seem to support display names other than on the profile page. It does, however, tell me that your account was created 6th of june 1923 :p
I like the ambiguity.
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Random nicknames are not recommended, they are unique identifiers, it is better to use nicknames of famous people or movies, video games, etc., because it makes it difficult to find them on the web, especially if different ones are used on each site.
this is a really good idea
Go to reddit, pick a username from the front page, use that. Any searching into your use of it will lead to that front page post and its reposts on click mills.
There’s user name generators. Even fantasy name generators too so it’s not a weird jumble of letters and numbers like a password.
I let Bitwarden generate my usernames for throwaway accounts. I don’t care if my username can be identified as Bitwarden-generated.
Good usernames are Google, Yahoo or Barrelroll, this is fun when someone searches for you by nickname
Pick a random book from your shelf.
- Open at a random page. Take the first word on the left page.
- Open at another random page. Take the first word on the left page
Repeat for as many words you like. Discard words you don’t like. Slam the words you like together.
Examples:
- thickestneedhelped
- ritestayoutdoors
- passedthejust
I see a pattern here…
English word + four numbers
That’s what you think, Michael
I don’t create anon accounts nearly as much as you say you do, but when I do I a correct-horse generator, and just pick the first two words and mash them together. It has never produced a conflict yet.
keepass2android’s password generator can generate these on mobile, and there are several for the command line.
I, too, was immediately going to recommend correct horse. It is random and it works.
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Try random real words until you hit one that’s free! Those are the most satisfying usernames anyway imo haha
