The AnonPaste Platform Manifesto
Frictionless sharing, clear choices, and practical privacy.
The modern web is obsessed with locking everything behind a login screen. Every simple utility demands your email address, your phone number, or a social sign-in just so you can share a line of code, a draft of a book, or a video clip.
We believe that you shouldn't have to surrender your identity to share a useful snippet. Text and code creation does not require an account. Accounts add file uploads, saved management, and other features that need an ongoing owner.
Because different tasks require different workflows, we split this project into two distinct, dedicated environments.
One service. Two creation paths.
AnonPaste Quick(anonpaste.com/quick)
The purpose: Focused text and code sharing.
The vibe: A compact creator for text, Markdown, or code with optional password encryption, expiry, and burn after view.
The AnonPaste Platform(anonpaste.com)
The purpose: Advanced creation and multimedia sharing.
The vibe: A broader creator for text, code, supported files, multiple content blocks, presentation, interactions, and developer workflows. Current plan limits are published on the pricing page.
Handcrafted infrastructure
Neither environment is built on generic templates or pre-packaged open-source scripts. This ecosystem was designed, structured, and hand-coded from the ground up.
We built a bespoke engine because standard web architectures couldn't handle our demands: a unified, high-performance pipeline for massive multimedia on the main platform, while keeping code execution lightweight and secure.
The "Anon ID" & creator ownership
Anonymous use still needs a way to associate a browser with supported creator actions. AnonPaste uses a private browser credential for authorization and a separate public anonymous identifier for presentation.
- Browser-based authorization. A private browser credential can authorize supported anonymous actions without becoming a public identity. Keep browser data private because losing it may also lose access to those controls.
- The purge option. A true right to be forgotten. At /anon-settings, the Purge Me action clears the local anonymous session and requests removal of associated anonymous records covered by that workflow.
- Lifecycle controls. Creators can use expiry, burn after view, and supported deletion workflows to limit how long content remains available.
Granular viewer controls (main platform)
Eligible creators can apply controls for who can request content and under which conditions:
- CAPTCHA challenges where required
- Age-gate verification
- Geo-blocking by country
- IP, VPN, and TOR filtering
Defining our threat model
Let's be transparent about what this platform is—and what it isn't.
AnonPaste is built for ordinary text, code, and file sharing with optional privacy and lifecycle controls. It is not an anonymity guarantee, a protection against a trusted recipient, or a way to make unlawful content immune from moderation and legal process.
Ordinary private or unlisted pastes are not automatically encrypted. In encrypted and Secret-link modes, selected content is encrypted in the browser before upload. Delivery, abuse prevention, expiry, and service operation still require visible fields and request metadata. A recipient who can decrypt content can copy, save, or photograph it, and a lost key or password cannot be recovered by AnonPaste.
Anonymised content analytics
On eligible plans, content statistics can include views, engagement, trends, and coarse location, device, browser, operating-system, or referrer information where available. Analytics are used to operate and explain a creator's content performance; AnonPaste does not sell browsing histories to data brokers.
The honest economics of file hosting
Running high-speed global servers and multi-gigabyte pipelines is expensive. We operate on a transparent model:
- The subsidised free tier. Exceptionally generous features for anonymous and free users—the platform practically runs as a free public service.
- The role of ads. Ads on eligible AnonPaste pages help offset bandwidth and hosting costs. Paid-plan ad benefits and their scope are listed on the pricing page.
- Paid plans. Supporter helps fund the independent service, while Pro and Max add plan-specific capacity, analytics, developer APIs, and advanced controls— Pro lists the current prices, limits, and included benefits.