Selling Without Being Identified: What You Can Hide and What You Can’t

You can sell feet pics anonymously to buyers, but not to the platform that pays you. Buyers see a username and your photos; the platform checks who you are and tax follows your legal name. Your job is keeping photos, accounts and chats from revealing who you are.

This is for adults. If you are under 18, do not sell images of yourself anywhere.

Can you sell feet pics anonymously?

You can sell feet pics anonymously to buyers, but not to the platform. On every marketplace Sole Brief records, what buyers see and what the platform knows are different things. FeetFinder and Feetify are the worked examples below; every other record shows its own privacy controls and verification terms.

What FeetFinder’s terms say. Seller verification: Required, by Government ID and selfie. Its terms also set out privacy controls for sellers: Face optional; Legal name not published. How it says it handles the verification data you send: Checks are run by outside verification providers. Biometric data is deleted or deidentified once it is no longer needed..

What Feetify’s terms say. Age check: Self declared. Privacy control: Legal name not published. Feetify says it never shows members’ email addresses, though premium seller listings display age and country. It does not publish how it verifies sellers or how it handles verification data, and it publishes no privacy policy, so Sole Brief cannot tell you what it collects.

The point is the same on both: a username hides you from buyers. It does not hide you from the company running the site.

Why “anonymous” has a limit

A platform that pays you has to know who it is paying, and the money ends up in an account in your name. FeetFinder’s published payout method is Bank transfer, so your bank sees every payment and who it came from. Feetify does not publish its payout methods.

Tax follows your legal name, not your username. Income from selling content is generally taxable where you live, and in the United States, Canada, the UK and Australia platform reporting rules require some platforms to report seller details or payments to the tax authority. Which rules apply depends on your country and your numbers, so this guide does not give tax advice: see the official pages listed in Sole Brief’s guide feet pics and taxes, or ask a tax professional.

None of this means a buyer can see your name. It means your privacy depends on the platform keeping what it holds private, which is why each platform’s record shows what it says it does with your verification data, and why the rest of this guide is about the part you control.

Does a photo show where you took it?

A photo can show where you took it, because phones can save the location inside the image file and that location can travel with the file when you send or upload it. The fix is to turn location off in your camera before you shoot, then check when you share.

On iPhone. Apple’s Personal Safety User Guide (opens in a new tab) (published September 2026) gives three controls:

• Stop it for future photos: Settings, then Privacy & Security, then Location Services, then Camera, then Never.
• Remove it from a photo you already took: open the photo, tap More, then Adjust Info, then Adjust Location, then No Location.
• Leave it out when sharing one photo: in the Share sheet, tap Options and turn off Location. Apple says “Location Not Included” then shows above the Options button.

On Android. Google’s help page “Change your camera location settings (opens in a new tab)” says to open your camera’s settings and turn off the location setting. The name of that setting depends on who made the phone. Among others, Google lists “Save location” on Google phones and on Motorola and Sony phones, “Location tags” on Samsung, “Store location data” on OnePlus and “Save location info” on Xiaomi. If your phone’s camera uses a different label, look in the camera’s own settings for anything mentioning location or geotag.

If you use Google Photos, know its limit. Google says that if a location “was automatically added by your camera, you can’t update or remove the location in Google Photos.” Google also says that when you download a photo and send it outside Google Photos, the original location saved by your device goes with it, without any edits you made in Google Photos. So on Android, turning location off in the camera before you shoot is the step that matters most.

Google adds one more warning worth repeating: people may still work out a location from landmarks in a photo, even when the location data is hidden. That is covered two sections down.

What else does the photo file carry?

Besides location, a photo file can carry when it was taken and what kind of phone took it. Apple’s own help (opens in a new tab) describes the Photos app showing a photo’s metadata, “like the date and time it was taken, the people identified, and any special camera metadata”. The standard most phones use for this, called Exif, is described by the Library of Congress (opens in a new tab) as “primarily technical metadata associated with camera settings.”

On its own that rarely names anyone, but it can link photos together or line up with things you said in a chat.

Do screenshots or re-saved copies remove it? Sole Brief has not found an official Apple or Google source that says a screenshot, an edited copy or a re-export removes every field, so this guide does not claim it does. Until that is answered, rely on the controls Apple and Google document: location off in the camera, and location off when sharing.

What in the picture could identify you?

Most people are recognized by what is in the frame, not by the file, so before you shoot, look at the whole picture, not just your feet.

Your body and jewelry. Tattoos, birthmarks and scars can identify you, and so can distinctive nail polish or nail art you also wear in photos on your personal accounts. Anklets, toe rings, a watch or rings that appear in other photos of you do the same.

The room and anything on paper. Floors, rugs, bedding, furniture and wall color can be recognized by a friend, landlord or ex, or matched to what shows up on your personal social media. Mail, packages, receipts, prescription labels and anything else with a name or address on it should stay out of the frame.

Reflections, windows and outdoors. Mirrors, windows, glossy floors, phone or TV screens, glasses and shiny shoes can reflect your face or the room. A view out of a window, a street, a landmark or a distinctive plant can place you.

A plain backdrop you only use for selling (a sheet, a towel, a piece of board) removes most of this in one step. FeetFinder states that it adds a watermark to content automatically (Automatic watermarking on every upload, which FeetFinder calls anti-leak protection.). Feetify states no watermarking or leak protection. A watermark discourages reposting; it does not hide anything in the frame.

How do you keep your accounts separate?

Keep your accounts separate by giving your selling self its own accounts that never touch your personal ones. PEN America’s advice on protecting yourself from doxing (opens in a new tab) makes the same point: “Create separate email accounts for separate purposes.”

A new email address. Use it only for selling. Do not reuse an email that is linked to your real name, your phone contacts or your personal social media.

A username used nowhere else. PEN America warns that old handles get found: “If you once used your Twitter handle as a LiveJournal account name, for instance, a doxer will find it.” Do not reuse a gamer tag, an old screen name or a variation of your real name.

A new profile photo. A photo you have used anywhere else can be found by a reverse image search, covered in the next section.

Social media accounts too. If you promote your listing on social media, the networks themselves can connect a seller account to you through your phone number and contacts. How that works on Instagram, Reddit, X and Snapchat is in selling feet pics on social media without being identified.

Nothing personal in chat. Buyers fishing for your city, job or school is one of the scams in Sole Brief’s guide how to sell feet pics without getting scammed.

Payment stays inside the platform. Paid through the platform, a buyer sees the platform, not your bank details. A buyer asking you to use a personal payment app is asking you to show them a name. FeetFinder processes payment itself (Processed, not held). Feetify: Direct or through the platform; it lets premium sellers be paid directly, yet its own member rules advise buyers to pay only through Feetify.

How do you check whether you can be found?

Check whether you can be found by searching for yourself the way a stranger would. PEN America’s advice is to “Start simple. Google different variations of your name, your phone number, your home address, and your online handles,” and to “Try a reverse image search.”

Reverse image search your own photos. Search with your selling photos, especially your profile photo, and with photos from your personal accounts, to see where each turns up. Google’s help page “Search with an image on Google (opens in a new tab)” gives the computer steps: go to google.com, click Search by image, choose “Upload a file”, then select the image. Results can include similar images and “Websites with the image or a similar image.” On TinEye (opens in a new tab) you can upload an image, paste one, drag and drop it, or search by URL, and TinEye states: “We never save the images you upload to TinEye.”

If a selling photo shows up next to your personal accounts, or a personal photo shows up next to your selling profile, change the photo and look for what connects them.

Remove your contact details from Google results. Google’s “Results about you (opens in a new tab)” tool checks Search for your name and the personal details you enter, and lets you request removal of results that show your phone number, home address or email address. You reach it at myactivity.google.com/results-about-you or from the Google app. Two limits, in Google’s own words: removal “doesn’t mean that the info is gone from the internet” (for that you contact the website’s owner), and some features are “currently rolling out for users who are over the age of 18 in certain markets.”

If your photos have already been reposted, or someone is threatening to expose you, that is covered in Sole Brief’s guide if it goes wrong: scammed, leaked or threatened.

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