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Exactly! Same with Google, FB. Disk space is almost free, let who ever sign up.
by deepstack 6y ago
Exactly! Same with Google, FB. Disk space is almost free, let who ever sign up.
- b0afc375b5 6y agoAs a devil's advocate, how about the notion that requiring mobile numbers mitigates, if only a little, automated spam?
- nulbyte 6y agoThe problem with that is, if you are going to automate spam, you can afford a burner. Or heck, just pay the $16 or so and hijack someone else's number.
- erhan24 6y agoSpammers don't just use one account to spam.
- HenryBemis 6y agoThere are free services where you can see a number to get that 'activation code'. Plenty of such services out there.. (a quick search in DDG and this is the top result) https://mytempsms.com/receive-sms-online/country.html https://mytempsms.com/receive-sms-online/country.html
- b0afc375b5 6y agoWhen twitter suspended my account after creation I tried to use these type of services. Unfortunately every number I tried resulted in an error.
- ehnto 6y agoI don't think that's true. For one, the sign up of the accounts itself is often automated and in the hundreds, because bot accounts are squashed all the time. You'd spend thousands on burners. Spam is mostly prevalent because it's cheap and easy to throw millions of requests at the wall and see what sticks. If it did cost really any money at all it wouldn't be remotely worth it.
- scaladev 6y agoIn my country you can easily buy a few thousand SIM cards for a cent or two each. I've seen them in classified ads, they're not even hiding.
- livre 6y agoSame in mine, spammers buy blocks of numbers (for example all numbers from XXXXX100 to XXXXX999) and use them to avoid being blocked by people who block individual phone numbers (with the default phone app). Fortunately I found Yet Another Call Blocker on F-Droid and I can block by pattern with it (XXXXX*) but most less technical people won't be doing that.
- mandelbrotwurst 6y agoDo you not have to pay a network provider in order to use it to make calls and send messages? How does this work?
- bozzcl 6y agoYou don't even need that, at least in America. Phone spoofing is terrifyingly easy.
- deepstack 6y agoPersonally I don't really mind receiving too much info (asid from DoDS attach of course). Bayesian running locally is pretty good at filtering out spam any way. Stop pretend to corporate nannying us.