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I created an account in May 2021 without a phone number to follow some people without blogs etc, and it’s still working with just a disposable email. They’ve a
by finiteseries 5y ago
I created an account in May 2021 without a phone number to follow some people without blogs etc, and it’s still working with just a disposable email.
They’ve added sign in/up with Google & Apple recently though.
- jchw 5y agoYou can get away with that on a residential IP sometimes, but don’t count on it. Log in from the wrong location or a VPN or do certain patterns of behavior and it drops you.
- finiteseries 5y agoI exclusively use it via VPN, with a ProtonMail address from the web (so many login notifications) while like, commenting, and subscribing on politically controversial content and soccer. Three, almost four months in and zilch. It’ll be a good test case anyways.
- thebooktocome 5y agoThey flagged my phone number-less account after four months, probably because I replied to a high traffic thread.
- ZanyProgrammer 5y agoI think the key to using a phone number less account is to use it as much as you can in read only mode.
- genewitch 5y agoFixed wireless ISP in the US and I hit a captcha on every site from time to time when logging in (and sometimes just trying to read-only) - and I'm effectively blocked from anonymous sites. I can "lock in" an apparent IP address, i.e. ssh to some box with no-ops; but that's either per-connection or still NAT enough that I get flagged. att aggregates all such connections at F5 routers in large cities, mine is in Dallas, for both of my fixed wireless connections.