I would use any other venue available than FB Marketplace, honestly.
this post was submitted on 02 Dec 2025
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In a lot of places it's the only serious option for local sales. I'd love to see better alternatives push FB out, but until that happens, gotta do what you gotta do.
Do you (or your friends) have an old device?
– All you need is for FB is an internet connection. A friend of mine got an old Huawei from a thrift store and a TextNow SIM card for $5 from Target; BestBuy, WalMart and convenience stores sell them as well along with 7-day trial SIM cards.
– You must use VPN. Proton’s free version should be fine. If you don’t have VPN, Proton is currently offering a 50% off on VPN until December 7 – I think it’s for 2 years for $59.76 (No, I don’t work for Proton but I paid almost $72 for a subscription five days ago. Mullvad is also highly recommended, it’s about 5€ a month and no long term commitments (I also use Mullvad and like it a lot).
– I provided her with a face (free) from thispersondoesnotexist.com There are other websites, so pick one that you like.
After you have VPN on and a phone number (textnow, burner, hushed, textfree - pick one), then download FB and create a new account.
Use your DuckDuckGo email address! FB will hoard whatever it can from that device, as long as you don’t do anything else (especially banking) but FB you should be fine.
– If you want to create an identity, there are plenty of websites. The two below are behind Cloudflare so you’ll probably need to CAPTCHA to get through (they may be the same company):
https://www.fakenamegenerator.com/ https://fauxid.com/
No CAPTCHA needed to get in: https://generate-random.org/persons
- Get your email address and a phone number ready.
- Install VPN – for an old iOS you might need to have iOS 16 running (as per Mullvad and Proton); you need iOS 15 for FB
- Dowload FB
- Check out posts by @Charger8232@lemmy.ml especially if you’re interested in privacy and security.
The steps above are what my friend did for her FB marketplace account, then she switched to an old iPhone.
Good luck!
Check first what information is required to sign up again with a new account. Like the other commenter said, they might be asking for actual ID now just to sign up. In that case, just sell somewhere else. If you are able to sign up without providing any personal information, use facebook on a browser only. Firefox with uBO and facebook container. Use an email specifically made for that account and don’t use it anywhere else.
Just sell it through someone else who has an account.
A family member, friend, neighbor, etc.
You could use a live linux boot disc and don't save any info. Just need another disc to write the pics, or you could use it on top of another installation. Boot to live until you sell and get one of those extra numbers that forwards phone calls to your real number. All this could also be solved with shitty burner phone.
What type of organisation are you part of that you need to guard the OpSec (operational security) of? Are you sure you don't mean PerSec (personal security)?
That said, please try selling your item in EBay before using Facebook, like, it's not great, but Facebook collects so much more data, even on an empty device. Iirc they need to 'verify' your identity with an ID document.
Life is a special operation, friend.