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I had a Discord account a couple of years ago. It was more than a year old when I lost it. I had recently bought a new domain name, to migrate e-mail to and mo

I had a Discord account a couple of years ago. It was more than a year old when I lost it. I had recently bought a new domain name, to migrate e-mail to and move away from GMail. When I changed my Discord account's e-mail address (which worked), I was booted out of Discord as soon as I clicked the confirmation link in the new inbox. When I tried to login again, I was told that "something fishy is going on", and was prompted for my mobile phone number. Unwilling to hand this over, or to deal with a company holding one of my accounts to ransom trying to extort yet more unnecessary information out of me, I asked them to delete my account. After all, I have no use for an account that I cannot use. I had to ask three times in the ticket before they actually entertained the notion (I was one e-mail away from CCing the Information Commissioner's Office), and then had to reply in very specific employee-provided verbiage to the tune of that's what I actually wanted. The ticket was updated to say that this would take up to 14 days. I then got an e-mail the following day saying that it would take up to 15 days. This does not strike me as a company that gives a damn.

raxxorraxor 4y ago
That seems to be common practice by now. Had nearly the exact same thing happen with a Microsoft account. I posted a technical question on their forums and did not give out my mobile number on account creation. Account was locked shortly after without any explanation. Then decided it was not worth it and tried to delete the account. I would have needed to give my mobile number again to even get the option to delete it... Of course you cannot contact support without an account either. Well, their dead database entry then.
vmception 4y ago
At this point I just buy new phone mobile number lines as an overhead cost With voip numbers being basically banned in 7 out of 10 services, I’m too privileged to be trying these infinite workarounds aside from just adding another line Since I’m not trying to be anonymous (to a subpoena) but nobody else can tell the user is the same and assume people won’t bother with paying for an additional phone number or device, so its fine, for now Iphones have dual sims though
Avamander 4y ago
Yandex does a similar thing, after a certain period "a password leak" (bs) is detected and you have to provide a phone number.
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raxxorraxor 4y ago

That seems to be common practice by now. Had nearly the exact same thing happen with a Microsoft account. I posted a technical question on their forums and did not give out my mobile number on account creation. Account was locked shortly after without any explanation. Then decided it was not worth it and tried to delete the account. I would have needed to give my mobile number again to even get the option to delete it... Of course you cannot contact support without an account either. Well, their dead database entry then.

vmception 4y ago

At this point I just buy new phone mobile number lines as an overhead cost With voip numbers being basically banned in 7 out of 10 services, I’m too privileged to be trying these infinite workarounds aside from just adding another line Since I’m not trying to be anonymous (to a subpoena) but nobody else can tell the user is the same and assume people won’t bother with paying for an additional phone number or device, so its fine, for now Iphones have dual sims though

Avamander 4y ago

Yandex does a similar thing, after a certain period "a password leak" (bs) is detected and you have to provide a phone number.

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