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A pay-as-you-go burner phone is pretty cheap.
by mnd999 4y ago
A pay-as-you-go burner phone is pretty cheap.
- lionkor 4y agoLots of sites, including afaik google, discord, etc. detect this and do not allow them.
- VanTheBrand 4y agoI’m surprised I haven’t read any articles about how low income people with bad credit who can’t get a post paid cell phone are banned from gmail. Or maybe this is just incorrect.
- lionkor 4y agoI cannot remember the last time I've read an article about any issues low income households face when using tech, but maybe thats just my selection of news, im not sure. I know that I have difficulties using some services because I cannot afford faster internet, for example.
- aliswe 4y agoWow, big claim. Also your other comment that they detect custom vpns, im just thinking hmmm ... do you actually know what youre talking about?
- lionkor 4y agoYes, I do. All you have to do is look up the IP of someone connecting, and if its not a home IP (e.g. a datacenter IP, like inside an IP range that a larger hosting company owns), its most likely a VPN or something similar. Instead of writing this comment you could've taken one of the nodes you run (since you seem to be so qualified) and simply install openvpn on it and connect to it. Then go and visit sites that would be restrictive, or visit any site that tells you more about your IP. But sure, go off and question my qualifications because you haven't considered this, or tried it, or ran into the issue yourself. Plus, the way Discord, for example, does phone numbers, is that they just block anything they arent quite sure about.
- throwaway2037 4y agoThey do not. I know from first hand experience. More fundamental question: How can you distiguish a "burner" phone (no registered user name at mobile phone company)? As I understand, a SaaS (like Google et al) cannot distinguish.
- sdflhasjd 4y agoFacebook probably can (or could if they wanted) because they've got everyone's contacts. But yeah, never had an issue with throwaway SIMs with any of the listed services.
- myself248 4y agoThey absolutely do not. Or didn't 3 months ago.
- m3047 4y agoI have a burner phone specifically for SMS. When jackasses sell it to the credit bureaus I deny it's my phone, whether I utilized it for SMS is irrelevant.