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How do you avoid giving your mobile number to service providers on sign up (banks, paypal, uber etc)?
by discordance 8y ago
How do you avoid giving your mobile number to service providers on sign up (banks, paypal, uber etc)?
- dawnerd 8y agoGoogle voice works fine for that... I do the same. It's wonderful.
- Larrikin 8y agoGoogle voice used to work fine, but I've found increasingly a number of the more "serious" institutions like banks have been rejecting VoIP numbers like Google Voice occasionally. If I can recall correctly I also believe that many of the chat applications reject numbers that are not tied directly to a SIM as well. I have used my GV since it was still invite only and have had to give out my real number increasingly often.
- dawnerd 8y agoNoticed my GV number being rejected but the main number I have in GV works. That number was ported back when you could do that (maybe you still can?) I wonder why that is. Maybe outdated databases?
- jedberg 8y agoUsually it just works. When it doesn't I call them and tell them my phone doesn't work and ask for another way to verify my identity.