Communicating with people who pretend to be others will definitely not bring much pleasure. That’s why it’s so important to know how to check a page for fakes on VK. Moreover, the entire procedure takes a minimum of time and does not require special knowledge or skills from users. Moreover, it is extremely simple, so even an unprepared person can cope with this task.
The only thing that is required of a person who wants to ensure the honesty of the interlocutor is limited by the ability to reason and attentiveness. Nothing additional is required.
In addition, it is worth emphasizing that existing suspicions do not always correspond to the real state of affairs, so you should not rush to make accusations if one of the accounts appears to be fake. Wrongful accusations can greatly offend and offend an honest person.
How to find a page by email address or phone number?
1. Go to vk.com/restore (in a browser where you are not logged in under your regular page); 2. Specify your email address; 3. Enter the captcha; 4. If a page is linked to an email address, we will see the person’s last name, first name, city and avatar; 5. Now, using this data, you can find it using a regular VK search or using yandex.ru/people/.
This can be done with a mobile phone number, but to do this you need to know the person’s last name. You can find out by sending a letter to his email (if he is not encrypted and has entered his data correctly).
Bypassing the bans. VKontakte returned to Ukraine
“Now VK works without VPN. We have added a proxy to the application itself so that you can use it without restrictions. Update the VK application - communicate freely and without borders,” the message says.
In addition, for the first time since 2018, messages on how to find Ukrainian news, music and other content in the Ukrainian language appeared on the VKontakte page in Ukraine.
At the same time, VKontakte officially remains a prohibited resource in the country. Vladimir Zelensky extended the decision of the National Security and Defense Council in May 2021 for another three years.
Let us recall that in May 2021, at that time, the President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko enacted the decision of the National Security and Defense Council “On the application of personal special economic and other restrictive measures (sanctions).” This decision included blocking the resources of Mail.ru, Yandex, Kaspersky Lab, Doctor Web, Odnoklassniki and VKontakte on the territory of Ukraine.
Ukrainian users have learned to bypass the bans using VPNs, but the international human rights organization Freedom House called blocking sites a restriction of the rights of Ukrainians and censorship.
An Internet publicist told who really runs the “Russian” social network “VKontakte”
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As of 2021, 78% of all Internet users from Ukraine (about 20 million) had an account in VK, 48% used Yandex daily.
Despite VKontakte’s optimism about returning to the Ukrainian market, it will be difficult for the social network to regain its position. The company lost many Ukrainian users, especially those who paid the platform for advertising.
It will be almost impossible to restore “pre-crisis” volumes: businesses and entrepreneurs who promoted goods and products have refocused on Facebook and Google in two years.
Meanwhile, not only the Ukrainian authorities, but also the American ones resort to censorship on the Internet.
On September 11, it became known that Apple was excluding VGTRK, NTV and MIA Rossiya Segodnya applications from its AppStore.
“It's censorship, that's all. Censorship, which, unfortunately, is being practiced more and more often in the Western world. Russia remains the champion of freedom of speech in the world, we have nothing like it,” commented the general director of the Rossiya Segodnya MIA Dmitry Kiselyov .
However, Apple later stated that it did not remove the applications of Russian media, but only notified the developers and offered to contact the Ukrainian authorities directly.
However, lack of freedom on the Internet is gradually becoming the norm. Even the American President Donald Trump is censored by Twitter, deleting and limiting access to messages on the personal page of the White House.
How to find out a user's hidden date of birth?
It happens that some people hide their dates of birth from guests/friends of the page (many ladies 25+ hide only the year), but they are still on the pages (during registration they indicated all their data and then hid it). In such cases, you can find out the year, month and day of birth of a person using a search.
We go to the search, indicate the first name, last name, city, university, etc., that is, all the data known to us, so that the person appears in the search results and there are a minimum of unnecessary people there. In the “Additional” section, indicate your expected year of birth. If it is entered incorrectly, the person will disappear from the search results, and when you guess correctly, he will appear. Tested many times.
Similarly, you can select the month and day of birth, as well as political views, school, marital status and other information.
How to find friends, add and add as friends
For example, to find a former classmate, classmate or work colleague, you need to:
- go to the “ Friends ” section, then in the search we write Last Name and First Name or vice versa First and Last Name, turn on the advanced search in “ Search Options ”, where, in addition to the full name, you can select the country, city, place of study, age, gender of the friend you are looking for :
- After you have found the right friend, click on the “ Add as a friend ” button to submit a friend request:
- The user to whom the friend request was sent will appear in the “ Friends ” section. But this will only happen if the user confirms the friend request. In the upper corner there is a bell to which all notifications are sent. And when the user confirms the friend request, a notification about this will be sent:
The friend request that comes to you will also be in the notifications (in the bell) and you can decide whether to accept the friend request or reject it.
How to view old posts on the wall?
Here's a small life hack that will help you learn more about the past of a new acquaintance. To read a person’s statuses set five years ago, you don’t have to tire yourself of scrolling through the feed. Everything is much simpler.
We go to the person’s page and at the beginning of the wall (microblog) click on the link “To Vasya’s posts”, then click on the link “Go to search” and indicate the desired date in the calendar that appears when you click on “Posts before a certain date”. This way you can find everything that was not deleted.
Many people registered there back in 2007-2009 and have changed a lot since then. Today the girl posts “the commandments of Vedic femininity” or “the rules of the Orthodox bride,” and seven years ago she posted the statuses “who stole my thong on the registration yesterday, please return it. You can anonymously."
This works for communities too.
How to find out who is hiding behind a fake?
No less important than identifying fakes is the question of how to find out who is hiding under a fake VKontakte. But there is not yet a single reliable, effective way to obtain accurate information.
The administration of the social network will not disclose confidential information, since creating a fake account is not a reason to disclose personal information. Support will be limited only to blocking a fake profile.
It is not always possible to get help from the police if the account creator did not commit fraud. Law enforcement officers will intervene when a crime is recorded. Therefore, the only way to obtain such information is to contact the appropriate specialists. But even they cannot guarantee success.
How to find a chain of mutual acquaintances?
We test the theory of “six handshakes” (which, with the development of the Internet, becomes the theory of “four handshakes”). Open the NON-random connections application and indicate the id of the desired person. Until recently, you had to wait about five minutes for the chain to be built, but now it happens in a matter of seconds.
If you need to get to know someone living in your city/town with a population of several tens of thousands of people, then you most likely have a mutual friend who can introduce you. The application will help you find this person.
Many people instinctively trust friends of friends and try to please them at least a little (make a small discount, for example). The Soviet law “I am from Tamara” and the subconscious hatred of strangers, at least a little, influence everyone’s behavior.
Bypassing VK blocking from an Android phone
Most users are on social media. networks from mobile phones. There are also VPN programs for smartphones. One of them is Hola VPN, which is available for free on Google Play Market. Download and install.
From the Home screen, you can select the app you want to use VPN for. Hola VPN also has a built-in web browser. Just enter the desired URL and select a location. This is convenient, because not all traffic passes through the VPN, but only the necessary requests.
Please note that the service provides more than 100(!) free locations for connection and does not require registration.
I hope that this article was useful and that you were able to log into VKontakte from your phone or computer while in Ukraine. Share in the comments which VPNs you use. Good luck.
UPD. The comments suggest another method - Opera with built-in VPN. Also a great method. Suitable for those who are used to Opera.
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What is VPN
Logging into VK in Ukraine is possible through a VPN server. Let’s try to explain in accessible language what a VPN connection is and what its operating principle is.
- How does a regular Internet connection work? You connect to your provider, and it redirects you to the desired and closest server. Therefore, the connection is fast and the speed remains high.
- Accordingly, if the site is Russian, then its servers will also be located in Russia;
- At this stage, the Ukrainian provider understands that you want to visit a resource prohibited in Ukraine and blocks access.
- If you turn on the VPN program at this moment, the provider will first connect to its server, and the VPN will then switch you to VK.
- The trick is that VPN servers are located abroad, you can even choose the country from the list. Thus, the provider will think that you are not in Ukraine, but, for example, in the Netherlands or Haiti, and will not create obstacles so that you can access your favorite social network. Sometimes the connection speed may decrease slightly, but this is a completely acceptable price to pay for the opportunity to access a blocked resource.
Such VPN programs for logging into VK from Ukraine have many advantages:
- Complete anonymity. Not a single resource that you visit will guess where in the world you are currently located. Of course, if he doesn’t turn to the special services, and therefore, don’t flatter yourself;
- The connection is reliably protected, so you don’t have to worry about the safety of your personal data;
- With a VPN, you no longer have to wonder how to log into VK in Ukraine, China and other countries where access to your favorite site is prohibited.
How to log into VK in Ukraine?
So, answering the question whether VK works in Ukraine, we will answer in two ways: officially - no, unofficially - yes!
There are 3 ways to access the resource:
- Download a free VPN program to your computer;
- Install a VPN extension in your browser;
- Install a VPN app on your mobile phone.
Now, let’s take a step-by-step look at how to get into Contact in Ukraine, using each of the above methods.
How to log in through a computer program?
Catch the instructions:
- Download any VPN program. We recommend Tunnel Bear, WindScribe, HotSpot Shield Free. The programs are free, easy to download from official sites, easy to set up and use;
- Using WindScribe as an example, find out how to log into VK in Ukraine:
- Download the program, install it on your computer;
- Log in, create an account;
- Select a location (you can check the “Optimal location” box, then the program itself will select the best coordinates);
- Turn on the VPN and wait for a notification that everything was successful;
- Now feel free to try to log into VK and forget about blocking.
