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Been trying to verify my phone number on my personal account for literally years. Every few months I give it a shot and it’s always the same. The fact that I us
by gtoast 4y ago
Been trying to verify my phone number on my personal account for literally years. Every few months I give it a shot and it’s always the same. The fact that I used my phone number on my work account prevents me from verifying my personal account.
If Discord thinks I’m going to purchase a second phone line to verify my Discord account they’re insane.
- Asraelite 4y agoThere are sites which provide a temporary phone number for account verification for a small fee. I don't know any off the top of my head but they're easy to google. They often also accept crypto if you want to really retain anonymity. Effectively this means you pay $0.50 or whatever per extra account you want to have. I really wish sites offered this option directly to customers so you wouldn't have to use these shady services. The primary purpose of phone verification is just to make the cost of creating a spambot greater than it's worth for the spammer, so they should have no probably simply accepting money instead of a phone number. The only service I know of that adopts this approach is Threema.
- ranger_danger 4y agoExactly zero of those sites provide non-voip SMS numbers, which are what's required by Discord and the like. They can detect when a number is really VoIP-based and they block all of them.
- Asraelite 4y agoAre you sure? I'm not talking about the ones that offer a permanent number that can be reused, just those for one-off verification. I've verified with them successfully on Discord multiple times.
- ev1 4y agoThere are plenty that provide non-voip numbers, but Discord will randomly challenge you later on if you do things like VPN heavily or block fingerprinting and if you can't access the number your account is toast.
- antifa 4y ago> There are sites which provide a temporary phone number for account verification Wouldn't those all become blocked, flagged, or "already used" pretty quickly?
- zardo 4y agoThey do, if you try to verify with one it's likely your account will be locked.
- lynndotpy 4y agoThe messed up thing is that I did buy a second phone number, on Mint Mobile. The verification code never came either, even after the number had been active for more than a week. I also tried several numbers from Twilio.
- ev1 4y agoAll of Twilio is banned. Mint blocks some shortcode SMS.
- aendruk 4y agoMy coworkers looked at me like I’m crazy when I refused to use my personal phone number to verify work accounts.