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I needed a temporary Facebook account recently. I put a fake but plausible name and I did what I had to do. That account was blocked in no less than 20min, aski
by pjerem 5y ago
I needed a temporary Facebook account recently. I put a fake but plausible name and I did what I had to do. That account was blocked in no less than 20min, asking for my ID and my phone number.
I’m pretty sure that Facebook is unofficially « closed » for new « non verified » accounts.
And that’s not even surprising : literally everybody was on Facebook a decade ago, it’s definitely not the social network of the younger generation, and nobody who had the occasion to register 10 years ago is going to change its mind today. So the vast majority of new registrations must be spam bots.
- Apocryphon 5y agoI wonder if they restrict Google Voice or other VoIP numbers.
- knownjorbist 5y agoThey do. Just get a burner pay-as-you-go phone.
- bserge 5y agoNew service: subscription identity - buy a real identity of a real person from some poor country and use it for yourself in the glorious developed world. Official government issued ID, passport, photos, video verification available for a fee.
- tommica 5y agoAlso known as identity theft
- Aerroon 5y agoIf you don't steal someone's identity is it still identity theft? Ie they give use of their identity to you voluntarily for using these services.
- Ensorceled 5y agoThat's not what is happening in this scenario.
- Sohcahtoa82 5y agoIf something is given with permission, it's not theft.
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- Apocryphon 5y agoThere are already marketing scams that involve renting out one's Facebook account so that third party entities can make posts with them: https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/craigsilverman/facebook-subscription-trap-free-trial-scam-ads-inc https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/craigsilverman/facebook... Come to think of it, that could be a way to get accounts with which to use Oculus with.
- knownjorbist 5y agoBrightID validates you as real and unique, but without revealing any actual IRL information to people consuming and using the identity via their apps. https://www.brightid.org/ https://www.brightid.org/
- jlokier 5y agoDoes the uniqueness criterion prevent it from being useful to people who wanr to create multiple, independent accounts as is being discussed in this thread?