Only if you don’t have to show your ID to get a number

That depends on your OPSEC

It is not. You do not show any ID to get a phone number

The problem is, if you’re in Europe, your phone number is associated with your identity

Arguable in it being “the best app for privacy”. Can you link to a source which shows that phone numbers are not linked to accounts? (Why do they need them anyway?)

I didn’t know that. Thanks

TBH I would just use email over TOR and encrypt communication with PGP. Rotate identities every now and then and you should be fine. Yes it doesn’t have forward secrecy but it removes the effort to find the “right messaging” service and is instead ubiquitous (and you can sign up for anonymous email addresses online too, which makes it even better).

Sure they don’t log the IPs, but it is technically impossible to not know the IP when you’re running a centralized service.

Good idea overall, unfortunately they still have your IP and phone number which means Europeans are still implicated

Is Libgen even an entity? What constitutes “Libgen”? I think there might be a way to make this claim invalid by a round-about shrug: “what’s libgen”?

You’re not there for fun lol, you’re there to pirate stuff. Sure, using Signal to pirate would be fine too but your anonymity depends on how long they honor their word of “no logs”. Use a desktop version/ run a VM if you’re on MacOS or something.

Everybody hates me when I say it but Apple users should really reconsider their choices if they are at all interested in privacy. Go get a cheap Android device, hope it has a kernel beyond 5.10 and KernelSU it.

I still don’t understand; why not simplex/briar?

How do you run Graphene on a Fair phone?

I still don’t see the point.

If religion showed you a method to get to God (praying, doing good deeds etc) and then someone came along who proved that there was a significantly easier way of attaining Nirvana without all the hassle; man would be afraid. “What if we get found out?” But when they see a LARGE and growing community of people ABLE to attain nirvana in exactly the same manner as described (i.e. without the pain) and while fighting the borderline criminal requirements that religion set - many would agree and leave the supposed “set” path and embark towards the easier solution. Some may do it out of greed, some desperation, and many more through sheer curiosity.

Why are people afraid of piracy? Use a damn no-log VPN and attain whatever it is you want without corporate monkeys in your brain. Get a seed box to give back to the community. Give a coffee to the people doing the hard work for the extra seretonin.

The only reason why someone would be arbitrarily afraid is if they don’t have a clue. Such people should be getting into a habit of RTFM; they’re going to need it.

If you’re making a correlation, I fail to understand it. Can you dumb it down?

In religion, people are:

1. Forced to believe unconditionally
2. Based on this programming, they are told never to disobey

How exactly is YouTube doing that?

What I want a pirated sports stream with sponsorblock

Why are they “afraid”?

It’s not about the website. Unless they have blocked access to the “connection” endpoint that Mullvad operates, you should still be able to connect to it.

Use TOR bridges. I don’t know how good their firewall is; can they deal with Obsf4/Snowflake too? If they can, I’ll admit that they are taking this seriously.

Use OpenVPN with Mullvad/IVPN if you can, OpenVPN can be disguised as HTTPS traffic. I wouldn’t rely on a free VPN because of the data mining, and it’s only a matter of time before Proton gets banned too

Does the UAE have something similar to China?

Unless they’re doing some serious DPI (no idea how they would do that on Wireguard traffic other than plain metadata mining), the only ways they can stop traffic is by stopping anything to certain IP spaces, or certain types of traffic through certain ports, or a combination of both. If they have truly blocked the Mullvad IP space, then no this will not work, but OP mentioned using a different app to access them, which lets me assume that it was a problem with the client.