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Doesn't it require a phone number for validation?
by elurg 5y ago
Doesn't it require a phone number for validation?
- jayshua 5y agoLast I tried you could reuse the same phone number to verify multiple accounts. There's just a cooldown period after each verification before the same number can be used again.
- Red_Leaves_Flyy 5y agoSo your accounts will be retroactively and publicly correlated for time immemorial when discord’s database gets dumped? Using phone numbers for human verification is lazy and needlessly intrusive.
- ziml77 5y agoDoes Discord store the number alongside your account? The smart way to prevent issues with associating accounts by phone number is to only store the link up until the account is verified. After that, they don't need the number linked to the account. The number just has to be stored in a list alongside the last time it successfully validated an account, and then only stay in there until the cooldown period expires.
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- mindslight 5y agoGiven that the smart way is to not ask for phone numbers in the first place, I wouldn't assume anything.
- anticensor 5y agoIt does.
- true_religion 5y agoI don’t thinks so… it’s relatively difficult to get different phone numbers so it’s a good way to limit spam. Plus in the real world, it’s also a way of separating your identities. I have a work number and personal number, and only attach the work number to business services. Sure, it won’t prevent Google from banning all your accounts but for everyone else it’s a hard barrier to correlating that you are the same person. Added to the fact that my work laptop uses VPN, and I’m pretty sure that sites like GitHub have no idea I have multiple accounts.
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- raxxorrax 5y agoThere are services for virtual phone numbers that still work. I expect many users to use them because you won't tie your ID to your account, even if many users have been groomed to share that by now.